The Nesting feature of JBoss has always made the jsr77 expression of some deployment very hard to think about. Since we have defined a j2eeType of ServiceModule and Looking at the spec I would suggest this as a possible approach. Lets assume you have this deployment. fooSar.sar containing a fooEar.ear containing a fooWar.war jboss.management.local:J2EEServer=Local,j2eeType=ServiceModule,Name=fooSar.sar for the SAR jboss.management.local:J2EEServer=Local,j2eeType=J2EEApplication,Name=fooEar.ear for the EAR jboss.management.local:J2EEServer=Local,J2EEApplication=fooEar.ear,j2eeType=WebApplication,ServiceModule=fooSar.sar,Name=fooWar.war for the WAR What I am thinking is that we do not treat a SAR like an application because a SAR archive can contain an application but it might also contain just a web archive or the other types as well, so I think having the J2EEApplication= key for the SAR can lead to a lot of confusion. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3957870#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...