Thanks Peter fo your reply. Ok I will try 5.0.1.GA would my applicationx.ml then have to look like the following? <?xml version="1.0"?> <display-name>Hello Java EE World!</display-name> <web-uri>web-app.war</web-uri> <context-root>/hello</context-root> do i need the module & web tags here? what exactly do I need to do wih the code tags? Finally yes I have placed the helloworld.ear in the server/all/deploy directory Thanks /Rob View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4227506#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...