Fully agree that the automatic default scanning for hotrestart of a deployment should be very limited, i.e. the application descriptors (application.xml, web.xml etc.) and the toplevel directory (for those without deployment descriptors - but this might only work for some OS's) Scanning for all .xml is very arbitrary and if the API is built for each deployer to say which files should trigger deployment why don't we get the right deployers to implement the specific rules instead of having a global one ? (or did I misunderstand how it is structured today?) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249853#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...