It is not always convenient to put files for deployment into "deploy" directory. JBoss provides the way to modify such default behavior through attribute "URLs" of jboss.deployment mbean but it requires modification of jboss-service.xml which is also inconvenient, especially taking in account the frequency of jboss upgrades. I would prefer if in jboss-service.xml the URLs attribute looked like

<attribute name="URLs">
${jboss.server.deploy.list}
</attribute>

where the property jboss.server.deploy.list had the default value "deploy/".
In that case, I could specify my components for deployment in the runtime in a different directory without changing the jboss installation just by setting the right value for the property. It would simplify upgrades to new jboss versions.

Thanks,
Yevgeny