"jaikiran" wrote : Just to be sure - we aren't talking about "empty" dirs, are we? Right; they're not "empty", just parents of directories which contain resources. Actually ShrinkWrap doesn't even support empty directories ATM. So: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/SHRINKWRAP-104 "jaikiran" wrote : i do think it would be good to print the parents too (as Jesper suggests) since it would then match the output of the standard (jar utility) Thanks for the input. The more I think on this the more I think we need user options. I personally find the extra parent dirs a bit unnecessary/noisy in most cases. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269186#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...