yes 4 minutes is alot... i have tried it with web config and i can see difference of 1 minute. with web config almost 3 minutes also without my application it takes almost same time to start up. actually jboss is stuck at some point which i have highlighted ... thats the problem... when it reaches to my application then it takes only 20-30 seconds to load it as i can see it in logs... also the same application works fine with tomcat. no issue there. dont know wt jboss is waiting for at that point... 19:03:51,292 INFO [WebService] Using RMI server codebase: http://192.168.0.86:8083/ 19:04:17,531 INFO [NativeServerConfig] JBoss Web Services - Stack Native Core 19:04:17,532 INFO [NativeServerConfig] 3.0.4.SP1 19:06:00,826 INFO [JMXConnectorServerService] JMX Connector server: service:jmx:rmi://192.168.0.86/jndi/rmi://192.168.0.86:1090/jmxconnector 19:06:01,764 INFO [MailService] Mail Service bound to java:/Mail 19:06:08,937 WARN [JBossASSecurityMetadataStore] regards, Kashif View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4206520#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...