Hi everyone, I hope I am posting to the correct forum; apologies if not!

I would like to be able to deploy applications to remote JBoss AS containers from a centralized location (I am specifically working on trying to create a TeamCity plugin, but in concept this could be done from anywhere). I am vaguely aware that one might be able to transmit application ears and wars via RMI through an existing JBoss API but I am having a difficult time finding tutorials or beginner overviews on how this would be accomplished programmatically, or if I'm correct in what I'm thinking.

I have found scattered references to mvn and ant plugins that may do what I'm looking for, as well as promising looking hints such as the org.jboss.jmx.service.RemoteDeployer class and the JBoss Remoting project, but I can't pinpoint exactly if these can do what I need.

The other alternative is for me simply to FTP or SCP the files over, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution. Any pointers or links would be much appreciated! Thanks.