I already gave you the means to deploy a war file (or exploded directory) from a network location: use the invoke method on the jboss.system:server=MainDeployer MBean. The URL you pass to this method, whether an http: url or a file: url, must be valid to access the war file (try it using a browser first). As long as the URL is valid, the war file should deploy. But as kennychaffin wrote, deploying an application from across a network is not a good idea because you are just adding yet one more point of failure. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995360#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...