I am using utf-8. Should I not? After changing the & to & I now get: | 17:32:54,468 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/C:/work/Projects/BBT/inetMillionaire/app-server/jboss-portal-2.4.0/server/inetMillionaire/deploy/portal-mysql-ds.xml | org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not parse dd; - nested throwable: (org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity "jdbcCompliantTruncation" must end with the ';' delimiter.) | at org.jboss.deployment.XSLSubDeployer.findDd(XSLSubDeployer.java:231) | at org.jboss.deployment.XSLSubDeployer.init(XSLSubDeployer.java:161) | Although when I look at your ds I don't see any ; Andrew View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967942#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...