"alesj" wrote : What about if you just extracted that line, | and then override it in your custom EmbInMemWarDeployer? That violates a design goal of Embedded. Embedded is a combination of projects which launch AS inside an existing process. Any time AS itself cannot handle being run in a fashion other than standalone points to improper assumptions it makes about its environment. I'd instead like to overload AbstractCopyMechanism with a non-recursive explode(), and expose that via VFSUtils. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247596#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...