Read Me To check how the Hot Deployment work follow the following procedure. Go to main class of ServiceTest then 1. Replace filename with a filename in your local machine 2. Then inside the specified directory create two sub directory call "service" and "module" 3. Create a service.xml using service1.xml file located inside the \test-resources\deployment 4. Then take any .jar file and put that service.xml into the META_INF directory 5. Then run the ServiceTest 6. While running the program put modified jar file into service director. you can down load test jars from http://www.apache.org/~deepal/HotDeploymentjars/