This is probably a great time to bring up: so how do we want to do this for *real*? :) As presently the concerns get mixed up. VFS.init in one place, setURLStreamHandlerFactory in another, etc. I suggest in JBBOOT-67 adding an MC Bean to vfs.xml bootstrap which is essentially a POJO version of: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/bootstrap/trunk/impl-as/s... < Might take 5 minutes to come through, use https SVN if you get 404. ...but will run on @Start, not some server lifecycle event. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4229947#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...