"bob.mcwhirter" wrote : | It's handing the child to my deployer at the right time, but it appears that the getChildren() against deploy/ is happening before JEP installation, so it doesn't know that myapp.rails should be handled as a JAR instead of as a normal filesystem file. | | At least that's what I'm thinking is happening. A hot deploy after AS is fully running, the getChildren() is smart enough to delegate to a JARHandler for myapp.rails. | Ah now i finally understand what you mean :) Yes there is a call of deployDir.getChildren before your JEP is getting deployed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4193554#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...