Ales, So if I understand this correctly getMetaDataLocations for a WAR deployment returns the WEB-INF folder, and the isModified method will check every child within that folder? That does seem to be somewhat undesirable. I know that there are a fair number of web frameworks that suggest keeping page (JSP, etc) files within WEB-INF (Spring comes to mind). If any change to those files causes a redeployment it's going to be an issue for people during development. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4179063#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...