According to the forum discussion, post 4, the BaseDeploymentTestCase (http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/trunk/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/deployment/BaseDeploymentTestCase.java?view=markup) is failing in JBoss5:

deployment-service-unit-tests:
[echo] Starting patternset=deployment-service.includes config=DeploymentService
[junit] Running org.jboss.test.deployment.test.DeploymentServiceUnitTestCase
[junit] Tests run: 17, Failures: 5, Errors: 4, Time elapsed: 38.16 sec
[junit] Test org.jboss.test.deployment.test.DeploymentServiceUnitTestCase FAILED

As this test is the only code sample I found for JSR88 deployment, I would like to see it working.