I have the same problem with an exploded WAR, when restarting the application server, my web services get lost. The JBossWS implementation simply overlooks the servlet definitions that have already been modified. Rewriting the web.xml is okay, but it should be changed back to the original on shutdown. It could be an even better solution to perform this change in memory only. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066569#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...