I don't understand why this is difficult? You already know the root you are visiting from the getClassPath(), so isn't it just a case of removing it. Of course, some of the roots maybe nested inside the root you are visiting (nested deployments), but it should be fairly easy to detect this and ignore them since you will visit that specific root anyway? i.e. in your example where you have jms.rar/jms.jar/package/some.class So the roots in the getClassPath() woud be jms.rar jms.rar/jms.jar When visiting jms.rar you would ignore the jms.rar/jms.jar because that is in the classpath. When you visit jms.rar/jms.rar you simply remove the root from the path: {jms.rar/jms.jar/}package/some.class View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4102521#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...