I'm new to EJB and also to JBoss.
I'm currently using JBoss 2.4.4 .
I wrote a basic "Hello" Enterprise Bean and tried to deploy the jar file under the "deploy" directory
of JBoss.
The Jar file does contain the ejb-jar.xml and the jboss.xml files along with the bean class files.

But I get the following error from the auto deployment feature of JBoss. What am I missing ?

The XML files are in properly under the META-INF directory when I look in my JAR file.

I've pored thru the documentation and this forum, can't fix it.
Thanks for any help!

Error part of the Log:

[10:42:13,697,AutoDeployer] Auto deploy of file:/C:/JBoss-2.4.4/deploy/lib/HelloWorld.jar
[10:42:13,707,J2eeDeployer] Deploy J2EE application: file:/C:/JBoss-2.4.4/deploy/lib/HelloWorld.jar
[10:42:13,947,AutoDeployer] DeploymentInfo failed:file:/C:/JBoss-2.4.4/deploy/lib/HelloWorld.jar
org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeploymentException: no deployment descriptor (META-INF/ejb-jar.xml, WEB-INF/web.xml, META-INF/application.xml) found
at org.jboss.deployment.LegacyInstaller.determineType(LegacyInstaller.java:384)
at org.jboss.deployment.LegacyInstaller.execute(LegacyInstaller.java:135)
at org.jboss.deployment.InstallerFactory.install(InstallerFactory.java:120)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.installApplication(J2eeDeployer.java:409)
at org.jboss.deployment.J2eeDeployer.deploy(J2eeDeployer.java:185)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.deploy(AutoDeployer.java:395)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.run(AutoDeployer.java:233)
at org.jboss.deployment.AutoDeployer.startService(AutoDeployer.java:371)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceMBeanSupport.start(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:103)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.configuration.ConfigurationService$ServiceProxy.invoke(ConfigurationService.java:967)
at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.util.ServiceControl.start(ServiceControl.java:79)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1628)
at com.sun.management.jmx.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:1523)
at org.jboss.Main.(Main.java:208)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:110)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.jboss.Main.main(Main.java:106)