Even I am the firsttime user of JBoss and I too am facing th esame problem. I had tried doing it in two ways - downloading jboss-4.0.4.GA.zip and jboss-4.0.4.GA-Patch1-installer.jar, both of which are complete versions. I thought the zip might be having some problem so went ahead with .jar but still didnt yeild any results on it. I want to learn JBoss but now have a roadblock to overcome. 2)I also giving the specified name to default folder in third time installation, hence the conf didnot get created in default folder instead got created in customfolder without jboss-service.xml. But still the jboss on startup tries to locate the xml in default folder. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050145#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...