How to deploy a war file in JBoss AS 7?

Question

I downloaded JBoss Application Server 5 and successfully deployed a war file. I copypasted the Hello.war which has a simple index.jsp file into

\\jboss-5.1.         


        

Answer 1

I built the following ant-task for deployment based on the jboss deployment docs:

    
    

    
    
    
        
    
    

    
    

    
    start deployment ...
    

    
    
        
    
    deployment ok!

${jboss.deploy.dir} is set to standalone/deployments