"alesj" wrote : "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : Throw it away. All it is used for is identifying archives, which is up to the individual deployers. | Afair there was more to it than just deployers. | The idea was to keep the suffixes in a single place. And this is a bad idea, as any deployer might use any extension for an archive. They should not be limited to a single global static list. And it's not appropriate for an archive deployer to explicitly manage nested archives of a type with which it is not familiar or authoritative over. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246491#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...