You could set up additional deploy directories by adding to the URLs attribute in the last mbean in server/xxx/data/jboss-service.xml. (See the comments in that file for instructions) The only difficulty is that either the archive file or the directory must end with .war or else the hot deployer will not know what it is that it is supposed to deploy. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4122758#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...