What version of JBoss AS? I hope it is 5.1.0 or the file locations I am about to tell you are not correct. Look in server/xxx/conf/bootstrap/profile.xml, the BootstrapProfileFactory bean. It has an applicationURIs property. Simply add a new entry for your directory. Example: <bean name="BootstrapProfileFactory" class="org.jboss.system.server.profileservice.repository.StaticProfileFactory"> | . . . | <property name="applicationURIs"> | <list elementClass="java.net.URI"> | <value>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy</value> | </list> | <list elementClass="java.net.URI"> | <value>file://path/to/your/directory</value> | </list> | </property> | . . . | </bean> By default, the listed directories are scanned every 5 seconds. You can change that by editing the scanPeriod property for the HDScanner bean declared in server/xxx/deploy/hdscanner-jboss-beans.xml file. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247698#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...