"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : Perhaps a more sane solution is to have a lazy servlet initialization function in JBossWeb. I don't think this is a "healthy" general-purpose solution, because the patterns it encourages are almost never desirable. For example, you only describe using it as a workaround for another problem. The use case is development, and you are only working with 1 of the 300 apps you have "deployed". View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4228792#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...