Hi, solved it :-). The spring configuration file located in mywar.war/WEB-INF was named spring-beans.xml. Renaming it to spring-config.xml did the trick. The file must not be named anything ending with -beans.xml. I assume that JBoss 5 evaluates a file named *-beans.xml as microcontainer beans which surely does not work for a srping beans configuration file. Annegret View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4123348#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...