I see...though I am familiar with what MBeans are, starting / stopping is something I am not familiar with. 1) I went to the JMX console and under MBean>jboss.j2ee>my deployment ear and tried stopping it. It throws a security policy exception (operation not allowed). 2) Would I need to custom write an MBean, specially if I wanted to have one more level of directory inside deploy folder where I keep my app? Is there a some good reading source you could point me to? anything online or a book? Thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165944#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...