*Hot deployment*: ServiceMix support hot deployment of OSGi bundles by monitoring jar files inside the {{\[home\]/deploy}} directory.  Each time a jar is copied in this folder, it will be installed inside the runtime.  You can then update or delete it and changes will be handled automatically.  In addition, the Kernel also supports exploded bundles and custom deployers (a spring one is included by default).

*Dynamic configuration*: Services are usually configured through the ConfigurationAdmin OSGi service.  Such configuration can be defined in ServiceMix Runtime using property files inside the {{\[home\]/etc}} directory.  These configurations are monitored and changes on the properties files will be propagated to the services.