"juicebox" wrote : | Is there any way in which I can instruct JBoss to uncompress the archives to an arbitrary directory? | Currently no, as this is non-exposed impl detail of the VFS. I'll see if I can make this plugable for the next release. You can deploy the .ear as unpacked, hence there will be no .war copy --> consistent name. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4258319#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...