I'm trying to create an application by following the application-creation-howto.html, but I'm having no luck. The application is a simple JSP file that accesses a JavaBean. In orion/applications, I have the following directory structure: sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/test.jsp sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/META-INF/application.xml sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/WEB-INF/web.xml sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/WEB-INF/classes/com/sunpress/beans/Item.java In orion/config/server.xml, I have added the following line ... <application name="sunpress/beans/propertyAccess" path="../applications/sunpress/beans/propertyAccess" /> ... in orion/config/default-web-site.xml, I have added the following line ... <web-app application="sunpress/beans/propertyAccess" name="sunpress/beans/propertyAccess" root="/sunpress/beans/propertyAccess" /> ... /sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/META-INF/application.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE application PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD J2EE Application 1.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/application_1_2.dtd"> <application> <display-name>sunpress/beans/propertyAccess</display-name> <module> <web> <web-uri>sunpress/beans/propertyAccess</web-uri> </web> </module> </application> ... /sunpress/beans/propertyAccess/WEB-INF/web.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE web-application SYSTEM "web-application.dtd"> <web-app> <display-name>"sunpress/beans/propertyAccess"</display-name> <description>Simple Bean Example</description> </web-app> ... when I try to start the Orion server, I get the following error message: F:\ORION>java -jar orion.jar Error initializing server: Error instantiating application at file:/F:/orion/app lications/sunpress/beans/propertyAccess: Error reading deployment descriptor at META-INF/application.xml The error message does not provide much help. The file is there, and it looks to me as though it is correct. Btw, this seems awfully complicated just to set up a simple JSP example. david