'Appropriate?' Not in Tomcat, since the deployer is for JBoss, with the ant task? Ofcourse not ;-) but you couldbuild your own directory poller in e.g. a servlet and use that as a 'deploy' dir Regarding your 'problem' I think the wrong config is picked up. It works for me. Try corrupting the config you expect is used and see if the ant task throws an error View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4255236#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...