I am using tomcat 6.0.16. Server type through WTP tools is Apache Tomcat v6. I am not touching the descriptors but hmmmm, how do I monitor that to find out which plugin might be doing that. I did uncheck the setting "Update Context Paths" thinking maybe that would help but it didn't". oh, and this is jboss tools 3.1.0 M3 ;). I will go ahead and try out adding a server through jboss tools jboss server view today and deploying to that server instead to see if that helps (though we do have another project that does seem to be working ok and does not redeploy when I touch class files so I am confused as to what is different between the two projects). thanks, Dean View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4255933#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...