>the deployment (or the parser) was more lenient before that what i thought so. ill check it out. the stack trace was not very helpful on pinpointing the exact prob though.
btw, im looking at ejb-jar.xml, jboss.xml, jaws.xml. each ejb has its own, separate, set of config files. heres my sample ejb-jar descriptor for privilegeHome (reported as errorneous by jboss 3.0.8) --------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ejb-jar PUBLIC '-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1//EN' 'http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/ejb-jar_1_1.dtd'> <ejb-jar> <enterprise-beans> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> com.cyberj.catalyst.ejb.entitybean.privilege.PrivilegeHome com.cyberj.catalyst.ejb.entitybean.privilege.Privilege <ejb-class>com.cyberj.catalyst.ejb.entitybean.privilege.PrivilegeEJB</ejb-class> <persistence-type>Container</persistence-type> <prim-key-class>com.cyberj.catalyst.ejb.entitybean.privilege.PrivilegePK</prim-key-class> False <cmp-field> <field-name>userId</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>projectId</field-name> </cmp-field> <cmp-field> <field-name>privilege</field-name> </cmp-field> </enterprise-beans> <assembly-descriptor> <security-role> <role-name>catalyst.consultant</role-name> </security-role> <method-permission> <role-name>catalyst.client</role-name> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> </method-permission> <method-permission> <role-name>catalyst.consultant</role-name> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> </method-permission> <method-permission> <role-name>catalyst.superuser</role-name> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> </method-permission> <method-permission> <role-name>catalyst.consultant</role-name> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> </method-permission> <method-permission> <role-name>catalyst.admin</role-name> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> </method-permission> <container-transaction> <ejb-name>privilege</ejb-name> <method-name>*</method-name> <trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute> </container-transaction> </assembly-descriptor> </ejb-jar> ------ am i looking at the right place? there are ejb references in web.xml too. any more ideas? <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3826499#3826499">View the original post</a> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3826499>Reply to the post</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user