I've been working with Dave and Tom, and the current design is such that we're building a ConfigurationController, which monitors the file mentioned above call jbossesb.xml. When updates to this file occur the controller reloads the file. Validates it against it's xsd (the current version can be found here: http://anonsvn.labs.jboss.com/labs/jbossesb/trunk/product/etc/schemas/xml... When the document passes validation it will run through a an xslt process which generates new versions of the jbossesb-listener.xml and jbossesb-gateway.xml, which in turn will get picked up by the current Listener and Gateway controller. The idea is that this code is pretty much a facade to the current configuration. --Kurt View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992952#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...