jaikiran, I tried both of your suggestions. Switching to 5.1 may not be an option anyways but I tried anyways. I still get the file lock. As for deploying the EAR still archived (not exploded)...well...it solves the issue. At least I can drop it into the deploy folder and jboss deploys it. But it deploys with an error, [STDOUT] [ERROR] [15 Oct 2009 07:55:40,853] [HDScanner] [MessageFactory ] Could not load message directory: messages. Then I can hit the home page login screen. but when I actually try to log in I get the following error. | 07:52:47,039 ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception | java.lang.NullPointerException | at com.paladindata.framework.db.hibernate.HibernateUtil.getTypeClass(HibernateUtil.java:438) | at com.paladindata.framework.db.hibernate.QueryBuilder.addField(QueryBuilder.java:864) | at com.paladindata.framework.db.hibernate.QueryBuilder.createQuery(QueryBuilder.java:325) | at com.paladindata.framework.db.hibernate.HibernateObjectDaoImpl.fetchArray(HibernateObjectDaoImpl.java:338) | at com.paladindata.framework.model.AbstractService.getPropertyList(AbstractService.java:178) | at com.paladindata.asm.model.user.UserService.login(UserService.java:528) | at com.paladindata.asm.web.FormAuthenticationFilter.processLogin(FormAuthenticationFilter.java:442) | at com.paladindata.asm.web.FormAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(FormAuthenticationFilter.java:311) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.filters.ReplyHeaderFilter.doFilter(ReplyHeaderFilter.java:96) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) | at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:235) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:190) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) | at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) | at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) | at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) | at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330) | at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829) | at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598) | at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) | I understand this is in my code but what I don't understand is why I'm getting this error when I try to deploy an archived EAR but not an Exploded EAR. Any ideas? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4260574#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...