If the application.xml, jboss-app.xml and jboss-web.xml files appear in the tmp directory, then they must be in the EAR and WAR war files. Therefore, your ant script is placing them in the those files as part of the build. Since it is your ant script and your build, you should know where those files are coming from. When you find them, post the jboss-web.xml file that gets packaged inside the csa.war. Also, is your build placing both the csa.war and csa-turtle.ear files into the deploy directory? Or is the csa.war file embedded within csa-turtle.ear? I ask because based on your third post (where you gave the full path) the war is embedded within the ear but your latest post claims that the war is not in embedded within the ear (you said the war appears in the deploy directory). Run an "ls -al" on the deploy directory and post the results. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168499#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...