[jboss-dev] JBossAS 5: Using ../..-style paths in application.xml

Folks, We are in the process of trying to port our existing applications from EAP 4.3 to EAP 5.0.1. Our current sticking point is regarding the way we construct our EARs' application.xml files in theWindows development environment. In order to allow JBoss to load classes directly from the developers' IDE directories, we've been using relative paths in application.xml that point directly at those directories, e.g. <application> <module> <java>..\..\..\..\..\..\..\path\to\my.jar</java> </module> </application> In other words, my.jar isn't actually under the EAR's directory struture, but somewhere else on the filesystem. This is a rather dubious practice, but it works without complaint in JBossAS 4. The JBossAS 5 VFS however, doesn't like it at all, since it can't find my.jar physically under the EAR root directory: Caused by: java.io.IOException: Child not found my.jar for FileHandler(a)27267010[path=Test.ear context=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/ real=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/Test.ear/], available children: [FileHandler(a)958828[path=Test.ear/META-INF context=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/ real=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/Test.ear/META-INF/]] at org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile.findChild(VirtualFile.java:472) I can understand entirely why it doesn't like it, but I'm trying to convince it otherwise - retaining similarlity to our current envrionment as much as possible is highly disrable to reduce the risk of this migration. Can the VFS be manipulated this way? Yours hopefully, kenny