you did not copy test.jar to the deploy directory, you copied test.zip to the deploy directory. JBoss does not have a deployer that knows what to do with a zip file. That is the reason for the INIT_WAITING_DEPLOYER state - it cannot initalize the zip until a deployer for zip files is deployed. Perhaps the zip file contains the jar file, in which case, first remove the jar from the zip and then deploy the jar. (I am making the asumption that the jar file contains EJBs, and that you want to deploy those EJBs.) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975364#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...