"jaikiran" wrote : As far as i know, its only the top level deployment descriptors that are watched for redeployment. Just to be more clear - If you have nested deployments then the top level deployment descriptor of each deployment is watched. See this for details http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=138457 For example: Your application is an EAR file containing a WAR file, then the META-INF/application.xml of the EAR and the WEB-INF/web.xml of the war are both watched for changes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178963#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...