Peter, anonymous wrote : If you would have passed the name "config.xml" instead (no leading slash), it would look for the file in jboss_home/bin (which is the current working directory). You are correct, it printed out the JBOSS_HOME/bin directory as the current directory - something I just learned, thanks. By switching to the getResourceAsStream("config.xml") (without a prepended frontslash) resolved this issue for me. Thank you, and everyone, that helped me. John View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4180083#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...