I ended up using the following ant task as a 'hack' to get the libs populated locally. <artifact:pom id="pom.xml.id" file="pom.xml" /> <artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath" filesetId="dependency.fileset" pomRefId="pom.xml.id"> </artifact:dependencies> I hope there is a better way to get JBoss to pick up the Maven dependencies when starting the App Server... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4077082#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...