Please explain further what you mean by starting with nonstandard ports. Are you changing the ports in the descriptor files? Or are you trying to change the ports via the command line arguments? More information there would be very helpful. Also, to figure out why it's not showing as started, you should expand the event log and open the properties view and see what information you can find there. Finally, selecting window -> preferences, and then the JBoss Eclipse IDE element (on the left), JBoss Servers element, and then selecting the created server (you must select it first), and THEN change the startup or shutdown timeouts, and what action to take upon timeout. Hope all of that helps. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3969021#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...