thank you quick reply! In my point of view, work around is always opened. I think origianl problem is that EARDeployer can't deploy an external exploded ear despite JBoss document describes that it can deploy exploded EAR : http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-9719 Many developer or customer don't want their application to deploy on $server/deploy directory because of complexity and so on. As a result, Can't JBoss support an expernal exploded ear? I didn't find this answer anywhere. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4186296#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...