Creation of datasource from Designer fails

following error occurs when I right click on TeiiD server under Servers panel and choose Create data source (populate all items..)

org.teiid.adminapi.AdminProcessingException: {"JBAS014671: Failed services" => {"jboss.ra.deployment.SemaphoreExportFiles_FinchDS_1" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.ra.deployment.SemaphoreExportFiles_FinchDS_1: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in anonymous service: JBAS010446: Failed to start RA deployment [SemaphoreExportFiles_FinchDS]
Caused by: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in anonymous service: JBAS010446: Failed to start RA deployment [SemaphoreExportFiles_FinchDS]
Caused by: org.jboss.jca.deployers.common.DeployException: IJ020056: Deployment failed: file:/home/tjohn2/redhat/dv/jboss-eap-6.1/modules/system/layers/dv/org/jboss/teiid/resource-adapter/file/main/./
Caused by: javax.resource.spi.InvalidPropertyException: ParentDirectory is not set"}}

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.v8.Admin8Factory$ResultCallback.onFailure(Admin8Factory.java:199)

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.v8.Admin8Factory$AdminImpl.cliCall(Admin8Factory.java:1553)

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.v8.Admin8Factory$AdminImpl.activateConnectionFactory(Admin8Factory.java:351)

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.v8.Admin8Factory$AdminImpl.createConnectionFactory(Admin8Factory.java:333)

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.v8.Admin8Factory$AdminImpl.createDataSource(Admin8Factory.java:473)

at org.teiid.runtime.client.admin.ExecutionAdmin.getOrCreateDataSource(ExecutionAdmin.java:344)

at org.teiid.designer.runtime.TeiidServer.getOrCreateDataSource(TeiidServer.java:597)

at org.teiid.designer.runtime.ui.connection.CreateDataSourceAction.run(CreateDataSourceAction.java:168)

at org.teiid.designer.runtime.ui.views.TeiidServerActionProvider$7.run(TeiidServerActionProvider.java:359)

at org.eclipse.jface.action.Action.runWithEvent(Action.java:499)

at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection(ActionContributionItem.java:584)

at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2(ActionContributionItem.java:501)

at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent(ActionContributionItem.java:411)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1057)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:4170)

at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3759)

at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:1113)

at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)

at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:997)

at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:140)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:611)

at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:567)

at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:150)

at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:124)

at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:196)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:354)

at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:181)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:636)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:591)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1450)

at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1426)

This is with JBDS 7.1.1.GA and designer 8.5.0.Final