Hello together,, Inside an ANT Script I am trying to deploy an EJB wich is called via Soap. The Soap documentation gives an example how to deploy an EJB. I am using this example and I have just replaced the bold fields. By commenting out several lines I found out, that the error is placed inside this small code snippet, but I have no idea why the following exception is thrown. <isd:provider type="org.apache.soap.providers.StatelessEJBProvider" scope="Application" methods="create saveApplication" > </isd:provider> After starting the ANT script I get the following exception: C:\Business2Business\gerlingcredit.b2b\soap.xml:73: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid value for type or scope or methods attribute in provider element of deployment descriptor --- Nested Exception --- java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: invalid value for type or scope or methods attribute in provider element of deployment descriptor at org.apache.soap.server.DeploymentDescriptor.fromXML(DeploymentDescriptor.jav a:317) at org.apache.soap.server.ServiceManagerClient.main(ServiceManagerClient.java:1 88) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecuteJava.execute(ExecuteJava.java:127) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.run(Java.java:260) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.executeJava(Java.java:123) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Java.execute(Java.java:87) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:153) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.runTarget(Project.java:898) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:536) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:510) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:421) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:149) Does anyone know why this exception is thrown??? Thanks in advance Mario Heiss --------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is intended for the addressee or its representative only. Any form of unauthorized use, publication, reproduction, copying or disclosure of the content of this e-mail is not permitted. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message and its contents, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all its attachments subsequently.