Hi Leo, I earlier tried it the way you had done[start it in application scope] and it worked. I want to move it to Startup. Cheers, Mani View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047641#4047641 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4047641