"KoosPol" wrote : Since AS 5.0 does exploded deploys automatically "PeterJ" wrote : What do you mean by (specifically, the word 'automatically') Perhaps I should've chosen my words more carefully. But hey, I'm a non-native. Anyway, in the light of my question I think it's semantics. I'm trying to figure out if AS/Tools could manage without touching web.xml to trigger a redeploy. We're trying to come up --as written in my OP-- with a standard "template" / setup for new Eclipse projects. Creating a specific build script task for touching the web.xml is specific as hell, and could be missed dearly. Thanks for listening. Koos View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200244#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...