Set up central with these steps: Step 1 - create a devstudio-discovery.xml file, file contents are: <directory> <!-- include JBDS Core Central discovery plugin --> <entry url="com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery_7.0.0.Alpha1-v20130306-0101-B124.jar" permitCategories="true"/> </directory> Step 2 - download Central discovery plugin jar http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/development/7.0.0.Alpha1c.core/plugins/com.jboss.jbds.central.discovery_7.0.0.Alpha1-v20130306-0101-B124.jar Step 3 - Edit plugin.xml in the Central discovery plugin jar change siteUrl="https://devstudio.jboss.com/updates/7.0-development/central/core/"> to siteUrl="http://www.qa.jboss.com/binaries/RHDS/updates/development/7.0.0.Alpha1c.core/"> Step 4 - make the devstudio-discovery.xml and jar file available via a www server (in this case in the top html dir for an httpd server) Step 5 - Add this to jbdevstudio.ini, start JBDS -Djboss.discovery.directory.url= http://localhost/devstudio-discovery.xml Background: https://raw.github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central/master/central/README.Central.localhost.testing.txt