Are your running JBoss AS via Remote Desktop, VNC, or some other such remoting software? If so, is is possibly closing the session? Such a closure would propagate itself to all applications started. You could also try running JBoss AS as a service, that would avoid this type of issue. I did a search on "Notified to shutdown" and found the following discussion: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=98571 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075479#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...