"wolfc" wrote : | | At the end of the day nobody should use a leading '/', unless they really really want to. :-) It's just a part of the real issue :-) Until we fix the handling of the CompositeNames in our jboss naming impl to follow the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/naming/CompositeName.html specification, no one (even end-users) can specify their bindings of the form: abc//xyz Adjacent "/" are expected to be handled as empty components. The naming impl fails to do that currently. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249410#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...