The thing that resolves schemas is JBossEntityResolver. http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/common/common-core/trunk/src/main/java/org... For details you can check its resolveEntity method. You can specify schemaLocation in XML. Or make it available in the classpath. As to the META-INF, seems like a good idea, but to get to resources there using thread classloader I think you'd have to prefix the resource name with 'META-INF/'? Which JBossEntityResolver doesn't do. It tries the resource name as is first and if that failed then with prefixes 'dtd/' and 'schema/'. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222902#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...