I'm having trouble with errors like the following: 15:44:17,680 INFO [DefaultEndpointRegistry] register: jboss.ws: context=gmsTest,endpoint=HelloWorld 15:44:17,787 INFO [WSDLFilePublisher] WSDL published to: file:/usr/java/ jboss-5.0.1.GA/server/default/data/wsdl/gmsTest.jar/HelloWorldService3425215985790724981.wsdl[i](listed below)[/i] 15:44:17,802 INFO [TomcatDeployment] deploy, ctxPath=/gmsTest 15:44:17,820 WARN [config] Unable to process deployment descriptor for context '/gmsTest' 16:02:35,127 ERROR [[HelloWorld]] Servlet.service() for servlet HelloWorld threw exception java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class javax.xml.soap.SOAPException at javax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory.newInstance(SOAPFactory.java:96) [...] The web service is as simple as it can be, as I have yet to have a single web service work: package gms.ws; import javax.jws.*; import javax.jws.soap.SOAPBinding; import javax.ejb.Stateless; @Stateless @WebService(name="HelloWorld") @SOAPBinding(style = SOAPBinding.Style.RPC) public class HelloWorld { public String echo(String sInput){ sInput += "!!!"; } public int addOne(int iInput){ return iInput + 1; } } When a web service is accessed. I'm trying to run jboss via eclipse 3.4.2, but have a sneaking suspicion that I don't have jboss configured to load the correct jars, from the right directories, in the right order. If this is the case, then I need to know how to adjust the classes/paths loaded by jboss from eclipse. When I run jboss from start.sh (64 bit linux), the CLASSPATH shown in the console output is not the same as the shell it is running from. It has only a few directories, while the shell (environment) has everything. Can anyone tell me whether this kind of error is due to jboss not finding the classes it needs, or am I writing web services incorrectly? TIA! pat :) "You see, the Boyz II Men's room is flooded. 'Cause Busta Rhymes went in to take a Master P but he got the Runs D.M.C. and had some Heavy D. And now there's Funky Cold Medina everywhere!" -Thurgood Stubbs