hello... I can't seem to find much info on this... This is valid in ejb-jar.xml for JBoss AND Weblogic <session-type>Stateless</session-type> these are only valid for Weblogic... it appears to be just the new lines and whitespace messing it up... <session-type> Stateless </session-type> <session-type> Stateless </session-type> they give this error... [Container factory] Deploying:file:/C:/dev/JBoss-2.4.1/tmp/deploy/Default/interest.jar/ [Container factory] org.jboss.ejb.DeploymentException: Error in ejb-jar.xml for Session Bean Interest: session type should be 'Stateful' or 'Stateless' [Container factory] at org.jboss.metadata.ApplicationMetaData.importEjbJarXml(ApplicationMetaData.j ava:140) [Container factory] at org.jboss.metadata.XmlFileLoader.load(XmlFileLoader.java:140) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:438) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:369) [Container factory] at org.jboss.ejb.ContainerFactory.deploy(ContainerFactory.java:304) I tried switching parsers to xerces... no difference... I was under the impression that white space wouldn't mater in the ejb-jar.xml... Is this how the parsing is supposed to behave? thanks _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development