It doesn't look like the ContractProviderLifecycleResource can be used to help in this circumstance. I question the usefulness of providing a wsdl contract for non-HTTP addresses at this time. May I suggest that for now (ie: the 4.x ESB stream, pre-5.x), we handle this case by not dumping an exception, but instead give the user the message: 'classpath:///helloworld.wsdl' unavailable: WSDL address URI format unsupported by contract application. only IF they click on a contract link whose contract was loaded with a "classpath://" uri AND they are not using the HttpGateway? (The HTTP contract via classpath would still be available in that case, thanks to ContractProviderLifecycleResource.) I made this change locally, but won't commit it to JBESB_4_7_CP until I hear that this is the approach we want to take. Of course I'm all ears too if someone has another option. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269870#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...