This is expected behavior. You can deploy the entire ear (with its nested children) by choosing to add / remove just the EAR. The childrern will follow automatically. This is done this way in case you wanted to deploy a child war or jar stand-alone for some type of test or any other use case. Basically, you configure what is a child of the EAR via module dependencies and other things... but that doesn't prevent you from deploying one of the children separately. Hope this was clear. - rob stryker View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4126714#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...