&quot;tom.baeyens(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : maybe it is the parent directory of ${jboss.home} that needs to exist. it's in the parent directory that the jboss zip file is unzipped. | | does the ant script itself give a clue ? In this case, the parent does exist. Looking in depth I think this is the problem: <target name="clean.jboss.install" description="deletes the current jboss installation at ${jboss.home}"> | <delete dir="${jboss.home}" /> | </target> The problems here are: * The will fail on error * This task is executed by default - perhaps it is better to fail if the directory exists rather than delete it automatically, and let the user manually delete or rename the directory if it does exist View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008920#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...