Thank you for all your help. Yes it was log4j which wasnt' printing the messages. I would like to know where do I have to copy the manually war file to deploy. Is it to jboss/server/default/deploy or jboss/server/all/deploy. Becuase i am using oracle data source to connect to the database and i have copied the oracle-ds.xml file to $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy directory. Now the error i am getting is 'testDateSource' not found. do i have to specify anywhere this jndi other than oracle-ds.xml file . Thanks, View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3976351#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...