Hi Everyone, I know am replying to an old post here. But just wanted to list it here for someone who might need help for similar errors that might be caused for a different reason. While troubeshooting, we stumbled upon similar error that was caused by misconfiguration. Before fix in all/conf/jboss-service.xml deploy,/opt/shared_data/snas/deploy After fix in jboss-service.xml deploy/,/opt/shared_data/snas/deploy/ If you observe, the comma immediatley after deploy and no "/" after "/opt/shared_data/snas/deploy" reproduced similar NullPointer Exception Cheers Jeljo View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4224453#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...