1. war files must really be archives, not just dirs called blah.war 2. use -Djboss.partition.name=[my partition name] View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222028#4222028 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4222028