"gavin.king(a)jboss.com" wrote : | The way Seam's hotdeploy works is that it redeploys the components when a request comes in, and it notices that there has been some change in WEB-INF/dev. | | Which means that you avoid the permgen errors. | do we know why jboss doesn't do a similar thing for its deployments ? (would make sense for it to not trigger it until actually needed) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4026161#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...