some of the xml was chopped out of my post: (re-did without > < ) mbean code="com.mysql.management.jmx.jboss.JBossMysqldDynamicMBean" name="mysql:type=service,name=mysqld" attribute name="datadir"..\server\default\data\mysql\data /attribute attribute name="basedir"..\server\default\data\mysql /attribute attribute name="autostart"true attribute name="enable-named-pipe" true attribute View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4187115#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...