I'm sorry, but I'm really having a hard time figuring out what you are actually trying to do. Seam projects created by JBoss Tools does not have any build.properties files with deploy.dir in them so that is not relevant at all. Seam gen projects does have this, but then deployment is not done via JBoss Tools but via ant scripts. Of course you can still start/stop your server from JBoss Tools - but that requires that you configured a server in Eclipse - this is not something that is committed together with a project in svn. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4236088#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...