Maybe. Depends on your build process. Maven2 gathers all war contents into a directory in one step and packages those contents into a war file in the next step. My Ant scripts follow the same pattern. Deploying then becomes copying the directory. Or if your Ant script packages the war file from disparate locations, you can use the unzip/unjar task to explode the file into the deploy directory. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4123547#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...