OK, I finally see what you mean. :-) You actually mentioned this in your first post, although it was still missing a small important detail. No, deployers are not hot re-deployed. Since we only scan deploy directory for changes. You can drop you 'hot' deployer into deploy. But then you must be careful that it really gets deployed/installed before any deployment that it might handle. e.g. proper explicit dependencies ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4189664#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...