Never mind about starting the container. I was able to fix that. It was a problem with my build file since I was not poitning to the existing installation of the container.
The container starts up correctly now, but cactus does not seem to be running the tests. Here is the output from my console. test.cactus: [cactus] ----------------------------------------------------------------- [cactus] Parsed JBoss version = [4.2.1] [cactus] Running tests against JBoss 4.2.1 @ http://localhost:8081 [cactus] ----------------------------------------------------------------- [cactus] Deploying [/Users/temp/build/test.war] to [/Users/servers/jboss4.2/server/all/deploy]... [cactus] JBoss 4.2.1 starting... [cactus] JBoss 4.2.1 started on port [8081] BUILD FAILED /User/src/test.xml:1052: Failed to start the container after more than [180000] ms. Trying to connect to the [ http://localhost:8081/test/ServletRedirector?Cactus_Service=RUN_TEST] test URL yielded a [-1] error code. Please run in debug mode for more details about the error. So even though the container started, I am getting a failed to start container error and the tests do not run after this. Any ideas? Once again, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks