Solved! It ended up being the stupid Windows unzipping program. The Jira install documentation warned about Windows XP, but Windows Server 2003 has the same one. So when I started chasing down some of the messages in the JBoss server startup log, I discovered a bunch of files missing that the unzip program had neglected to extract. All is well now and Jira is up and running. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4092310#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...