See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=72055 Posted on behalf of a User I have tried this approach by adding my local directory "/home/fred/work/jboss/deploy/" (see below) to the server/default/conf/bootstrap/profile.xml file and restarting the AS. Placing the file helloworld.war in this directory does not deploy it though. Any ideas? <bean name="VFSDeploymentScanner" class="org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.VFSDeploymentScannerImpl"> <property name="profileService"><inject bean="ProfileService"/></property> <property name="filterInstance"><inject bean="DeploymentFilter"/></property> <property name="URIList"> <list elementClass="java.net.URI"> <!-- Standard hot deployment directory --> <value>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy/</value> <!-- Added for testing --> <value>file:/home/fred/work/jboss/deploy/</value> </list> </property> </bean> In Response To: Hello all, I just downloaded JbossAS 5 and get it running. Can I add another directory in addition to deploy so that Jboss deployers would scan it for hot deployment? Thanks for the help, Gina