"gavin.king(a)jboss.com" wrote : The problem with JBoss hot deployment today is that redeployment occurs when something changes. Which means that if you are editing stuff in eclipse, and the seam-gen build is copying that stuff across to the deploy dir, you have two choices: | So part of this is an Eclipse problem? I am using Idea. After re-compiling a class I can choose to either hotswap (if I am debugging, using JVM TI) or package (let Idea copy the class file to the exploded dir and let JBoss pick up the single file there). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4025933#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...