"ALRubinger" wrote : | That was the original problem. unjar() originally had no effect upon vfsmemory. | No, the original problem is that Tomcat code even demands such unjaring, which is overhead in the case of VFS. But from reading Remy's Servlet3 TODOs, this shouldn't be the case anymore, as the default Context impl will be VFS based. "ALRubinger" wrote : | Thinking some more, seems for nested vfsmemory archives: the root should be unpacked/serialized to plain files and the nested ones should be as well...but not nested JARs (which are left intact). | This looks like a hack to handle something that was never expected to work in JBWeb code. You should fix the real problem and not hack around something that is already a hack to fix a hack. ;-) e.g. check what it takes to get JBW's VFSContext back View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247679#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...