Well, not really this :) At that time i was working with Tomcat and i remember i was able to do something similar with with Jbuilder, it was a mix of Jbuilder support and ant but i could publish and debug on different tomcat instances with a single runtime. At that time it was not even possible to start Jboss with an instance directory different from the installation runtime. The basic support was already there but it was not correctly working. I remember i submitted a couple of patches to correct startup behaviour and allow jboss.* properties reference within jboss-service.xml to allow this kind of configurations. Since then i switched to Eclipse and i've always used this kind of conf both in production and development environments. Regards, Gabriele View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982606#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...