There is a problem for appclient in EAP 6.1.1 to execute a jar file that is *not* within an EAR archive. I have a simple hello world appclient that just prints a line to stdout [1]. When I start the app calling it through the ear I see a correct result: > bin/appclient.sh appear-1.0.ear#app-1.0.jar > ... > 15:19:14,992 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (Thread-35) JBAS018559: Deployed "appear-1.0.ear" (runtime-name : "appear-1.0.ear") > 15:19:14,996 INFO [stdout] (Thread-43) Hello World Enterprise Application Client! > ... When I try to directly start .jar though the application client just hangs there doing nothing without any error messages or other clues what is going on: > bin/appclient.sh app-1.0.jar > ... > 15:22:27,987 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (Thread-35) JBAS018559: Deployed "app-1.0.jar" (runtime-name : "app-1.0.jar") Nothing happens, it just sits there forever doing nothing. [1] https://svn.jboss.org/repos/qa/people/akostadi/appclientear
Tested with ER3.1 and automated test is in place for RPM distribution.