You can just create a directory in your deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/ROOT.war/ and you can access it. If you want to do the same thing in other web app. context, you need to create the dir. in that context. By the way, static contents should be deployed in Apache instead of JBoss since JBoss is not as good as Apache when handling static contents View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963934#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...