HI Peter Thanks for all the suggestions you are providing... I have 3 questions..! (I need your email ID pls..mine is "ravi.rachannavar(a)tcs.com" because some time jboss forum is not opening for me. Pls) 1.I deleted data,temp and work folder from the server/default and it successfully started...but next time those folders were recreated..and it is again hanging. is there any permanent solution for this. 2. Even after starting I gave the url you suggested.it displayed 404 error file not found. how can I do the successfull deployment..? 3. how to do the clustering in JBoss 5.1.0 GA ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246163#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...