deploying through the jmx interface is NOT persistent. i forgot to mention that :-s good idea to also have a persistent deployment. the reason why i preferred the jmx one is that it only returns (and then completes the ant task) when the deployment is finished. with copy deployment you have to wait till the scanner does another poll and figures out that a new war has been put on the file system. so the jmx deployment is faster View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966663#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...