"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : I thought we talked about changing getChild(...) to not throw the IOException. Your thinking of the isLeaf() checking for child operations. It current throws an IOE if you do findChild(), getChildren(), visit(), etc. on a leaf. We should probably keep for that for findChild (backwards compatibilty - null is not an expected return value) but return null, Collections.emptyList() or do a no-op visit in the other methods. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4119150#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...