Oh, that makes sense. For production would you generally deploy things packaged or exploded (with the hot deployer turned off)? Any advantages to either (e.g. convenience, performance, other issues...) Could you point me to resources for how to turn the hot deployer off and to invoke it manually? (Would both of these be done from within the JMX Console or through some configuration file...I can never tell the difference between these two approaches!) Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4006508#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...