Hi, I am writing pom.xml to deploy my .ear file to jboss eap 6.1. My pom.xml is as follows <plugin> <groupId>org.jboss.as.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>jboss-as-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>7.2.Final</version> <executions> <execution> <id>Dev_Deploy</id> <phase>install</phase> <goals> <goal>deploy</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <hostname>127.0.0.1</hostname> <port>9999</port> <name>admin</name> <password>admin@123</password> </configuration> </plugin> My file gets deployed into following path. After I restart jboss .ear file starts getting deployed (<deployment> is added to standalone.xml). D:\jboss-eap-6.1\standalone\data\content\bd\fa12f117fe39423074fdaaab03ce878d4aefa0 I stuck in following points... 1. How do I deploy my .ear when the server is offline (by specifying the server path) 2. I want to start my .ear once it is copied to above location (hotdeployed). 3. Is it possible put my .ear to following location and start the server D:\jboss-eap-6.1\standalone\deployments Thanks. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Surendran Duraisamy" <surendran.d(a)gmail.com&gt; To: jboss-user(a)lists.jboss.org Sent: 8/29/2013 5:31:54 PM Subject: deploying with jboss-as-maven-plugin