Like I said in the sticky, deploying Spring .war file/application is what Spring is all about - see their basic instructions. JBoss (Tomcat) in this case only serves as a web container. What JBoss/Spring is about, is the integration with EJB3 or any AOP injection capable module. "pedwards" wrote : but its still using 1.2.5 version of spring | Not true. There is not so new release that supports Spring 2.0. "pedwards" wrote : | So I need to know how to start spring application context from a war file. | See Spring instructions. There must be Spring specific ServletContextListener defined in web.xml. "pedwards" wrote : Please are you able to supply a simple war file example? | Any working .war should do. JBoss (Tomcat) is a normal web container. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4068876#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...