Yes, you can. JBoss exposes the deployers as MBeans. You will have to first get reference to the MBeanServer and then get hold of the jboss.system:service=MainDeployer MBean. This MBean has the deploy method to which you can pass the URL of the file to be deployed. Have a look at http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=HowCanIGetAReferenceToTheMBeanSe... You may even want to look at a few examples of invoking MBeans. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106418#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...