I haven't tried this type of deployment on JBoss, so don't know what the actual issue is. "axismundi" wrote : the reason is, I need to deploy the same WAR several times, but have it at a single place in the file-system. On Linux, you can create symbolic links. But on windows the only solution is to deploy the war via Context-file and have the baseDoc refer to the same (external) location in the fs. | | Won't the http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/ExplodedDeployment help in this case? You can place the exploded war in the server/< serverName>/deploy folder and redeploy it as many times you want. There's another way too. You can edit the jboss-service.xml in the %JBOSS_HOME%\server\< serverName>\conf folder to specify a new location (folder) on the file system to be scanned for deployments. See this for details: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=139394 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4176736#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...