OK, I installed the EJB3 configuration. I figured out that the port 1098 was being used due to some process on my computer. I stopped the process and then got no more of those errors. Now it looks like it is starting fine; it is like my original post, minus the warnings. But, in the JBos server view, in the event log, after the successful start of the server i see a bunch of messages like: anonymous wrote : Twiddle Launch: Server is down Then after a good 25 of those: [quoteServer failed to start View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3986392#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...