Take the moviefun.war and put it into Tomcat's webapps directory. When the archive expands, update the openejb.home init-parameter in the web.xml to point to the directory where you installed OpenEJB. For example, if you have unpacked this distribution of OpenEJB in the directory /home/jsmith/openejb-1.0-beta1 then you would set the openejb.home init parameter as follows: openejb.home /home/jsmith/openejb-1.0-beta1 This example has been tested on Tomcat 4.x. The status of Tomcat 5.5.x is unknown at this time, but will be fully tested before OpenEJB 1.0 final is released.