Adrian, deployers use VFS handles to scan archives. If JBoss Embedded is running inside an OSGi or Eclipse environment it is going to get an OSGi or Eclipse style URL and will not grok it. What I was saying was, maybe we can write a default VFS context handler. If the URL ended in "/' then we can't do anything as the URL API does not support scanning, but if the URL did not end in "/" we could assume the file was a JAR file and use a JAR handler. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4049357#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...