"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | 1) We could create a new but deprecated "DirectoryStructure" that adds this behaviour | for backwards compatiblity purposes. | i.e. instead of ignoring directories inside deployments that don't have | a META-INF subfolder, we could scan them (recursively) for deployments. | This solution has the problem that directories no longer need extensions to be deployable. e.g. parent.jar/child/WEB-INF/web.xml makes "child" a valid web application subdeployment. so If there was also a parent.jar/child/WEB-INF/lib/util.jar it would be wrong to treat util.jar as a subdeployment since it is part of the war classpath. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4173371#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...