After creating the application in the start guide, exactly as written in the guide, the server does not deploy the application.
The message in the console is:
deployer: null
status: null
state: INIT_WAITING_DEPLOYER
watch: file:/C:/jboss-4.0.4.GA/server/deploy/MyWS/WEB-INF/web.xml
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1155150857176
lastModified: 1155150857176
mbeans:

and so on for each component in the application.

Any ideas as to the reason for this failure appreciated...