If you already know how to enable hostswap with jetty + maven + eclipse/intellij, please ignore. There are two links: https://gist.github.com/naaman/1053217 http://www.clickonchris.com/2010/05/configuring-jetty-maven-and-eclipse-together-with-hot-deploy/ If you follow their steps, test and develop cloudstack mgt server will be much much easier.