"max.andersen(a)jboss.com" wrote : I would *really* like to avoid us having to deploy *anything* on a server to manage these things. | Deploying something like that is a road to endless support issues. | | I would rather not have this feature in the tools if there is no other way - but from the sound of Scott it sounds like we could do something ? Hmm, how about using something like the ProfileService DeploymentManager: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/integration/trunk/jboss-p... With this you can deploy a relative deployment from the file system, or you can tell PS to copy a zipped deployment into the deploy/ dir. Both ways will include it in the hotDeployment checking. There is also an API (on the Profile itself) to disable checking for modified deployments. NOTE: we are going to work on this API in the next weeks, so we can definitely have a look and see how we can simplify things for you. I can point you to a testcase in the AS testsuite if you want to give this DeploymentManager a try :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4197850#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...