Hello Guys, I read your responses and I find myself in a similar situation as you bailey. I installed the latest JBossIDE, the Alpha1a version, into Eclipse 3.2. I am attempting to launch JBoss 3.2.4 with a manual deployment (outside of the IDE) using ANT. My problem is two teired. 1st. JBoss does not completely start when launched in Eclipse and I think it has to do with a NullPointerException being thrown on one the startup threads (timerThread): in the Timer.run() method...<see below> for some reason, a NullPointerException is generated in the "sychronized(queue)" call. The class documentation says this run() method is called repeatedly and that any subsequent calls after the first one has no effect on the queue object. I think the second call to this method's "synchronized(queue)" with the same queue object that was previously nulled out (queue.clear()) generates the exception. try doing a synchronized on an object who's value is null. public void run() { try { mainLoop(); } finally { // Somone killed this Thread, behave as if Timer cancelled synchronized(queue) { newTasksMayBeScheduled = false; queue.clear(); // Eliminate obsolete references } } } 2nd, after launching JBoss within eclipse, I am able to access the web console and the JMX console via an external browser...(http://localhost:8080/)... BUT when I try to execute my client app to connect to JBoss, I get this funky error "java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host:" when my client App attempts a JNDI name lookup...I know my app works fine because it works when I manually start JBoss outside of Eclipse. I guess for some reason, I cannot connect to the JNDI services when launching JBoss via the JBoss-IDE in eclipse.....ANY IDEAS? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963314#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...