There should be two types of "hot deployment". 1) The original version which is just a way to add urls (with no chance of overrides by a management tool). 2) A more up-to-date version for the management tool where you can specify a directory rather than a single url to deploy. This is just a more convenient way of specifying urls. In fact, (1) is just a subset of (2) where there is no "GUI" intervention View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3956942#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...