Bill, Thanks for the quick reply. No I don't deploy remotely I misunderstood the text. Ok so that constraint is only applicable if you deploy remotely? You say anonymous wrote : In JBoss 4 kernel you can only watch one file. I see so it only scans one directory the deploy directory (the first directory that is configured). I switched my directory to be the first configured like this: <attribute name="URLs"> | file:///c:/application_data/workspace_dir/project_dir/,deploy/ | </attribute> And now it works. I still have one question: Is JBoss 5.0 going to have a feature like jetty? Thanks anyway, Joris View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4011252#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...