We wanted to bundle JBoss with the minimal set of files and with this intent we moved the client folder within jboss Also we removed the unused "domain" folder within the server directory. With this the JBoss stared up fine, but the shutdown script seems to have a dependency on $JBOSS_HOME/client/jbossall-client.jar And the shutdown script did throw NoClassDefFoundError for org.jboss.system.server.ServerImplMBean Any reason for the server shutdown script to have a client library dependency? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4195231#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...