[jboss-as7-dev] Packaging utility classes in an .ear

Dear devs, I'm testing .ear classloading with utility classes packaged in the Enterprise Archive. The following case test fails, so I'm wondering if it's my misundertanding or a bug: application.ear | | Webapplication.war | Utility.jar | | META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Manifest file contains the Java EE compliant dependency to the class Utility.jar Class-Path: Utility.jar However, the Webapplication fails to load the classes from Utility.jar, which are instead correctly pickedup if I move them into the ear's lib folder. As side note - I've tried also stating isolated deployments to false, in jboss-deployment-structure.xml (which should default) without success: <jboss-deployment-structure> <ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated> </jboss-deployment-structure> Any suggestion? Thanks a lot Francesco