Peter If I want to acces my bin directory for the ini file located in SOAServices.ear/bin/security.ini then can i set up the application.home as -Dapplication.home=C:\jboss405GA\server\default\deploy\SOAServices.ear we would like to avoid using jboss specific home directories in the code. hence we are passing the application.home in the JAVA_OPTS. thanks in advance. regards Yugandhar View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026584#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...