Ken,
The example does not use the deployer directly, so you can leave that part out.
Please submit a stacktrace to figure out the issue. One thing I can see from the start: the example is using Spring 3.0.1 which is not working on JBoss AS 6 due to: https://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-7197, so please upgrade to Spring 3.0.6 (latest, which is always best).
Marius