"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : That todo is in the basic profile impl to see if we should be looking at the metadata files for modification. Hot deployment in terms of what has changed is part of the profile contract, not the deployer layer. | How are you planning on checking metadata from profile? As I see it, metadata is server side structure contract. And with jboss-structure.xml you can have it any where. And it's only (vfs) deployment context that holds that info - which is what we don't want to expose, impl detail. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4156366#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...