I thought I'd post an update on this, since it was the only hit I found on the IllegalName error message. I ran into a similar error message working with JBossWS, and spent a while figuring out that it was a blatant, dumb error on my part. I was specifying the Java class in web.xml as 'echo/Echo' instead of as 'echo.Echo'. The error message is correct, since 'echo/Echo' is an illegal Java class name. Hope that helps someone. - Bill View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4074496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...