The documentation does not tell what descriptors are optional and what descriptors are mandatory? Descriptors is a solution to automating the deployment, the problem is that these are read and written to the database at every start of the server. If descriptors are not mandatory then it could build a war to deploy/update and a war to "run". Could you tell what files are optional? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131612#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...