However, no null pointer exception was thrown if jar did not exist in deploy directory and copied later on after server was started. Is this a problem with the deploy/initialise order? Nilesh ###### successful start only if jar did not exist in deploy directory but later on deployed after started successfully. 15:28:51,557 INFO [Http11Protocol] Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-127.0.0.1-8080 15:28:51,823 INFO [AjpProtocol] Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on ajp-127.0.0.1-8009 15:28:51,823 INFO [ServerImpl] JBoss (Microcontainer) [5.0.0.Beta3 (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_0_0_Beta3 date=200712210026)] Started in 3m:48s:288ms 15:28:59,463 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] installing bean: jboss.j2ee:jar=helloworld.jar,name=HelloUserBean,service=EJB3 with dependencies: 15:28:59,463 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] and supplies: 15:28:59,479 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] Class:com.ns.learn.ejb3.beans.helloworld.HelloUser 15:29:03,370 INFO [EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: com.ns.learn.ejb3.beans.helloworld.HelloUserBean ejbName: HelloUserBean 15:29:04,667 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] installing bean: jboss.j2ee:jar=helloworld.jar,name=SearchFacade,service=EJB3 with dependencies: 15:29:04,667 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] and supplies: 15:29:04,667 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] Class:com.ns.learn.ejb3.beans.searchfacade.SearchFacadeLocal 15:29:04,667 INFO [MCKernelAbstraction] Class:com.ns.learn.ejb3.beans.searchfacade.SearchFacade 15:29:06,823 INFO [EJBContainer] STARTED EJB: com.ns.learn.ejb3.beans.searchfacade.SearchFacadeBean ejbName: SearchFacade "ALRubinger" wrote : Great; when back from holiday travels I'll take a look for you. | | S, | ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116183#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...