I saw this post and build an example war file from it to test a JBOSS(EAP 6.4) I setted up. The included war-file ist build with Java 1.8.0_111, but it ran without problems on a JDK7 JBOSS-EAP 6.4 ...

Create the directory structure Create a root project directory named HelloWorld and cd HelloWorld . In a project directory of your choosing, create the following subdirectory structure; For example, ...