Ok so its broken, cheers for the help Peter. I will wait for beta3 to come out. anonymous wrote : | c) wait for JBossAS 5.0 beta3 (looks like it might be out on the 21st) | Thats the 21st of when?? 21 st december?? So today?? Ok back to hot deployment, this is something that i will need to work when i start my development. anonymous wrote : | One final bit of info: in 5.0, the hot deployment configuration is found in the file server/xxx/conf/bootstrap-beans.xml, look for a bean named HDScanner. In addition, there are several other beans that aid in deployment. | So do i have to make an entry in here like in 4.2.2 with the URLDeploymentScanner for hot swap to work or will JBoss 5.0 automatically pick this up?? Did you test for hot swap with 5.0 beta3 or just the original property file issue?(Just out of curiousity to see if it works) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4114904#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...