I've received requests lately to re-use some of the functionality implemented in the CLI. So, I am cleaning up the API for external (to the CLI code) users, which I'd like to complete for the upcoming release. If anybody is interested, here is the first simple article https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossAS7Command-linePublicAPI There is one commit waiting to get merged though until it's all in master. Suggestions and ideas are welcome. Thanks, Alexey