When I start the JBoss server from the eclipse IDE (3.3.1.1) I get the following error org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext]; nested exception is java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out: connect The server starts fine when outside the firewall but never when inside. I've tried configuring the proxy settings inside eclipse (pref->general->network connections). Im not sure where the proxy configuration needs to be done. I've also tried to copy the spring schema - http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd to my local WEB-INF directory but this doesn't help. My applicationContext looks like this... <!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd"> ... Ideas? Thanks Andy View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4111669#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...