I was able to find an elegant hack to this. My workstation is Windows XP. There is a command line tool called "fsutil" which you can use to create symlinks like between files. However, it doesn't support creating such links for directories. There seem to be some hidden/undocumented OS API call which creates a "junction". I downloaded a junction command line program from Windows Technet website and easily mapped a "mywebapp.war" directory to my output directory. However, I would still like to know whether the is an option to configure this at the JBoss level. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165460#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...