> But then what is the point of back porting the JBOSS_5_1_0_GA with the fix as mentioned in Bruno Haleblian's comment?

JBossContextConfig needs to be isolated from the war class loader ----------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-7210 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-7210 Project: Application Server 3 4 5 and 6 Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: ClassLoading, Web (Tomcat) service Affects Versions: JBossAS-5.1.0.GA Reporter: Scott Stark Assignee: Scott Stark Fix For: 6.0.0.M2 Attachments: jbas-7210.war.zip The parsing of the context.xml by the JBossContextConfig class is using the tccl which causes problems when the war app has tried to load its own xml parser.