peter - not sure i can figure what that would be though - where can i look to get an expansion of the error> This is all running on my local laptop - and i can deploy to jboss AS on EJB project under eclispe just fine. I tried the other actions on the ant script and i never seem to get an EAR file even to deploy by hand - so it i think its something in the generation somewhere . I can read and write the AS deploy directory fine on other routes - so i think its somewhere previous - any ideas how to trace it back further? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4082413#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...