"PeterJ" wrote : Could you post the contents of testShop-ds.xml? It's size is really small. | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <!DOCTYPE datasources | PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS JCA Config 1.5//EN" | "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-ds_1_5.dtd"> | <datasources> | <local-tx-datasource> | <jndi-name>testShopDatasource</jndi-name> | <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/shop</connection-url> | <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class> | <user-name>root</user-name> | <password></password> | </local-tx-datasource> | </datasources> "PeterJ" wrote : | Also, post the results of "jar -tf testShop-ear.ear" | | META-INF/MANIFEST.MF | META-INF/application.xml | META-INF/jboss-app.xml | richfaces-api.jar | mvel14.jar | jbpm-jpdl.jar | jboss-seam.jar | jboss-el.jar | testShop.war | testShop-ejb.jar | drools-core.jar | drools-compiler.jar | antlr-runtime.jar | META-INF/ What I don't understand at all is that the server can't even be started without any deployed project.. (Well, it can be started but JBoss Tools does not recognize it as started and throws an error message after a timeout period). View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4234170#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...