I don't agree with the current implementation of the AbstractJarHandler.isFile/isDirectory. Jars are currently marked as always directories and not files. For me the status of of being a directory or file should reflect the underlying vfs context behavior. If a vf is a directory, its not meaningful to obtain its input stream. If its a file it is. The notion of a file being a container for other files should either be reflected via another attribute such as hasChildren or implicit with a non-container simply returning an empty child list. Also, the isArchive attribute is of little value and certainly not sufficiently general as we also look to the JarUtils.isArchive. A more general contentType attribute and registry for suffix to content types would be more useful. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970534#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...