Try changing it to: <attribute name="URLs"> | deploy/,file:/C:/xxx/apps/biplatform/biplatformear.ear | </attribute> Notice that I removed the trailing '/'. With the trailing '/', JBoss AS assumes that you are specifying a directory that must be scanned for apps to deploy. Without it, JBoss AS assumes that the path is to the app itself. Oh wait, I think that without the trailing slash, the path must reference an archive file, not a directory. So try this instead: <attribute name="URLs"> | deploy/,file:/C:/xxx/apps/biplatform/ | </attribute> Now it will scan the C:/xxx/apps/biplatform/ directory and deploy the biplatformear.ear app. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4263202#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...