If these are your properties files, then your code should be responsible for rescanning them. You could do this by creating a service to manage the properties files. The logging service already does something like this - it rescans the jboss-log4j.xml file every few seconds; you can use that as a template for your service. There is also the system properties service provided by the properties-service.xml file. But that doesn't have a timer to rescan the properties files. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4163911#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...