"jason.greene(a)jboss.com" wrote : Looking at this in more detail, the JPA code is definitely wrong and an ugly hack, no matter the decision on the trailing /: | Exactly. ;-) I've said this to Carlo before - relying on impl details == very bad. :-) As this impl will fail on exploded deployments. The DI::getParent is tricky, as it might not always work - can be null. It depends on what the VFSContext's root is. It's then again an impl detail to know that we actually have a context root that's higher up the hierarchy. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4211234#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...