To clarify our question: When we have pure .war archive (containing web services) in deploy directory, the deployment process passes on AS bootstrap (our deployers are called after Tomcat is started). When we have .sar archive containing .war archive (containing web services), the deployment process fails on AS bootstrap (our deployers are called before Tomcat is started). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4186031#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...