I am trying to deploy a stateful bean but am failing. Stateless is okay. To narrow in on the problem I tried to deploy the interest.jar example after changing its deployment descriptor to indicate that it was a stateful bean instead of stateless and it failed to deploy in the same way as my own beans. Help. Thanks. ######################################### # Modified deployment descriptor ######################################### <ejb-jar> <description>jBoss test application </description> <display-name>Test</display-name> <enterprise-beans> <session> <ejb-name>Interest</ejb-name> <home>com.web_tomorrow.interest.InterestHome</home> <remote>com.web_tomorrow.interest.Interest</remote> <ejb-class>com.web_tomorrow.interest.InterestBean</ejb-class> <session-type>Stateful</session-type> <transaction-type>Bean</transaction-type> </session> </enterprise-beans> </ejb-jar> ######################################### # Server output ######################################### [Auto deploy] Auto deploy of file:/usr/local/jboss/deploy/interest.jar [J2EE Deployer] Deploy J2EE application: file:/usr/local/jboss/deploy/interest.jar [J2EE Deployer] Create application interest.jar [J2EE Deployer] Installing EJB package: interest.jar [J2EE Deployer] Starting module interest.jar [Container factory] Deploying:file:/usr/local/jboss/bin/../tmp/deploy/interest.jar/ejb1012.jar [Verifier] Verifying file:/usr/local/jboss/bin/../tmp/deploy/interest.jar/ejb1012.jar [Container factory] Deploying Interest [Container factory] java.lang.NullPointerException [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.init(StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.java:122) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer.init(StatefulSessionContainer.java:189) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.Application.init(Application.java:158) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:733) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:272) [Container factory] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523) [Container factory] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeDeployer.java:645) [Container factory] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.deploy(J2eeDeployer.java:137) [Container factory] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:332) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:268) [Container factory] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) [Container factory] java.lang.NullPointerException [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.init(StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager.java:122) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.StatefulSessionContainer.init(StatefulSessionContainer.java:189) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.Application.init(Application.java:158) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:733) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:272) [Container factory] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523) [Container factory] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeDeployer.java:645) [Container factory] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.deploy(J2eeDeployer.java:137) [Container factory] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628) [Container factory] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:332) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:268) [Container factory] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) [J2EE Deployer] Starting interest.jar failed! [J2EE Deployer] Module interest.jar is not running [J2EE Deployer] Destroying application interest.jar [J2EE Deployer] deployment.cfg file deleted. [J2EE Deployer] File tree file:/usr/local/jboss/tmp/deploy/interest.jar deleted. [Auto deploy] Deployment failed:file:/usr/local/jboss/deploy/interest.jar [Auto deploy] org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeploymentException: Error while starting interest.jar: Could not deploy file:/usr/local/jboss/bin/../tmp/deploy/interest.jar/ejb1012.jar [Auto deploy] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.startApplication(J2eeDeployer.java:665) [Auto deploy] at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.deploy(J2eeDeployer.java:137) [Auto deploy] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) [Auto deploy] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628) [Auto deploy] at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523) [Auto deploy] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:332) [Auto deploy] at org.jboss.ejb.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:268) [Auto deploy] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) ======================================== Garry Thuna Tactical Executive Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user