Brian Stansberry [http://community.jboss.org/people/brian.stansberry] commented on the document "JBoss AS7 User Guide" To view all comments on this document, visit: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-16068#comment-5435 -------------------------------------------------- For domain mode, deployment must be done via the management API; there is no background thread scanning a directory and deploying content for you. The reason for this is because in domain mode there can be many servers belong to different server groups running different profiles. In that situation it's not clear to what server groups content in a "deployments" folder should be deployed. That requires knowledge beyond what a simple filesystem scanner has. --------------------------------------------------