"pete.muir(a)jboss.org" wrote : Does this solution address this use case - a user wants to update a number of deployment descriptors - say persistence.xml, beans.xml and faces-config.xml - and knows that they don't want a restart until all changes are made? Not exactly. If the changes are atomic - saved all at once - the first one will be picked up, triggering re-deployment of the whole app, hence the rest two changes are then irrelevant. But if the changes span over HD check period, there will be multiple re-deployments. In this case user should suspend HD scanning; there is some MBean that knows how to do this - Tools use it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249848#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...