The issue is not do we temp or not. And controlling this is not hard or hacky. ;-) e.g. simple jboss-structure.xml will do or adding a simple ModificationTypeMatcher. The real issue is why this worked before, when we always temped everything. Which is exactly what we do here - we temp - but it doesn't work. So far I got zero useful information from JBossWeb, old WarDeployer authors, ... "jason.greene(a)jboss.com" wrote : | However, I can make a very good educated guess, that tomcat just calls getResource on a standard xhtml request, which is of course going to point to the tmp. | Where is this piece of code? Or where does TC/JBW do a check for if the resource has changed? That's all I need to know, and I'll dig it up from there. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223990#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...