Hi, i am new with JBoss. i installed JBoss 2.2.2 on W2K with jdk 1.3.0 the server starts without error-messages. I wanted to test the tomcat-test application. when i enter http://localhost:8080/jboss the index-page appears in IE. But if i click on execute example i get an exception: Servlet calling EJB Call failed... Exception: javax.naming.CommunicationException. Root exception is java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: Files/appserver/jboss/tmp/deploy/Default/tomcat-test.ear/ejb1002.jar at java.net.URL.(URL.java:473) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:376) at java.net.URL.(URL.java:330) at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.pathToURLs(LoaderHandler.java:374) at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.loadClass(LoaderHandler.java:132) at sun.rmi.server.MarshalInputStream.resolveClass (MarshalInputStream.java:143) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputClassDescriptor (ObjectInputStream.java:918) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:366) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputClassFields (ObjectInputStream.java:2262) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject (ObjectInputStream.java:519) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputObject (ObjectInputStream.java:1411) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:386) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:236) at org.jboss.ejb.plugins.jrmp.interfaces.HomeProxy.readExternal (HomeProxy.java:267) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputObject (ObjectInputStream.java:1212) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:386) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputClassFields (ObjectInputStream.java:2262) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject (ObjectInputStream.java:519) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.inputObject (ObjectInputStream.java:1411) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:386) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject (ObjectInputStream.java:236) at java.rmi.MarshalledObject.get(MarshalledObject.java:138) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:353) at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:333) at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:350) at org.jboss.test.tomcat.servlet.HelloEJB.testBean (HelloEJB.java:57) at org.jboss.test.tomcat.servlet.HelloEJB.doGet(HelloEJB.java:38) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService (ServletWrapper.java:405) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service (ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService (ContextManager.java:797) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service (ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection (HttpConnectionHandler.java:213) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt (PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run (ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) can anybody help me? is JBoss not properly configured??? Thanks Michael _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user