Have you deployed an application to JBossAS? If so, does JBossAS start properly without that app deployed? You stated "initiate the JBoss service". Does this mean that you set up JBossAS to run as a service? If so, what package are you using to set JBossAS up as a service? JBoss Native? The Java Service Wrapper? Also, what happens if you start JBossAS from the command line using the run.bat file? Where are you locating the error message that you posted? Dialog box? Event log? Command prompt? Server log file? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162197#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...