Let me see if I understand this correctly. You are attempting to write a stand-alone Java application (one not deployed to JBoss AS) that you can use to deploy applications. I assume that this application might not be running on the same host as the app server. And you want to know how to code the application such that the file-to-be-deployed ends up in the server/xxx/deploy directory. Is that correct? I think that JMX is the way to go. Once the file-to-be-deployed appears in the server/xxx/deploy directory the hot deployer will take it over from there. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4070652#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...