Did you try to copy the war on a clean JBoss AS while it is not running and starting it then? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4263543#4263543 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4263543