Hi, some more info: it seems that the file spring.schema can not be found which contains the translation of the URL http://www.springframework.org/scheman/beans/spring-beans.xsd to the local location org/springframework/beans/factory/xml/spring-beans-2.5.xsd JBoss gets a ConnectionTimeout that means it tries to resolve the URL instead of searching the xsd-file locally in the classpath. spring.schema is located in um.war/WEB-INF/lib/spring.jar, but I copied it also to the conf-directory (still the same error) Anybody has any suggestion ? The war file does not contain a jboss-web.xml, maybe I can try some jboss configuration issues ? Annegret View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122648#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...