I do not think having multiple names for metadata files such as web.xml, web-2.xml, special.xml is harmful because we can have deployments with any of these 3 xmls being served by this deployer. That is why, addName is a good addition to the deployer. If you remove that check, then you will probably have to do addName yourself if you want the feature of single deployer taking care of multiple metadata files. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4219252#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...