Moving file locking issue to the forum. I tried using the feature I recently added - explicit unpacking of archives - with top level .ear file. Adding this jboss-structure.xml to ear's META-INF directory does the trick of unpacking ear into tmp directory, but still doesn't allow the original ear file to be deleted. | <structure> | <context modification="Unpack"> | <path name=""/> | <metaDataPath> | <path name="META-INF"/> | </metaDataPath> | </context> | <context> | <path name="inner.war"/> | <metaDataPath> | <path name="WEB-INF"/> | </metaDataPath> | </context> | </structure> | I guess when you do any kind of reading inside file, in this case reading the contents of jboss-structure.xml, the file gets locked. I don't see how we can get past this w/o rewriting how URL(Connection)s are handled. Can someone try how we stand with this on Linux? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4145753#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...