"newcomer4" wrote : | Can I copy only ant.jar and ant-launcher.jar to JBOSS AS lib folder and invoke my build file whenever I need? | ... | I am providing the installer which contains war file and a couple of other files. | At the time of installation, user will be entering some values using which one of the files in war file needs to be updated. As this updates happen at runtime, I need to unpackage war file, update and pack it back. Consider this - the user uses your tool to create the deployable (.war) on a system which does not have JBoss AS installed. The point i am making is, whatever installer that you are creating/packaging should not be within the AS. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4215640#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...