Ok, so you have developed an enterprise application using JBoss. You deploy, and you fire up your web app, and it hangs. The web site never comes up and before you know it your processor is screaming. You check and double check. You're kicking in chairs and knocking down tables, in a restaurant, in a western town. What to do?

Well, I had this problem a while ago and corrected it. It came up again this morning. I knew I had resolved something similar. It was the same problem and of course the same solution.

The problem is that JBoss isn't a graceful server if you get a JNDI name wrong. So if you have this problem, double check the following:

• Your configuration files like your ejb-jar.xml or your web.xml. It is possible that names, links, or references are not matching up correctly.
• Your code. Remember that the standard lookup prefix is java:comp/env/ when looking up resources on a J2EE server. Check the names of the resources you are looking for in your code. This happened to be my problem consistently.

I hope this helps. I will check the mailing lists and bug databases and see if it has already been taken care of. If it hasn't, I will create a new report. If you have similar problems and/or solutions I would like to see them, so comment away.