The line you have put on jboss-service.xml is in order to "listen" to a directory for deployed apps (or apps that are going to be deployed). To deploy an exploded WAR, at least in JBoss you have to put the extension to the directory, so JBoss knows then what kind of app (web-app, ejb-app, ...) you're deploying. If you have all your different apps under the directory c:\webapps, the only thing you have to do is change it in jboss-service.xml to that directory instead of c:\webapps\ccr2. Everything that gets into that directory and has an known extension to JBoss will be deployed. By the way, in JBoss 5 they are going to permit links in their deploy dir to another dir, so you won't have to change the jboss-service.xml in order to do that. You're not alone in trying this kinda things ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010323#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...