ContextClassLoader is not working when war is zipped in Jboss as-7.1.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBDEPLOY-280 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDEPLOY-280 Project: JBoss Deployers Issue Type: Bug Components: classloading, deployer, release Environment: mac osx, eclipse kepler ,Apache Maven 3.0.4, java 1.7_0_45 and JBoss Application Server 7.1.1 Reporter: Raj Haque I have some resources(reports and native sql) on my class path. When I unzip the war I can see them under the classes folder. I have been using Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(). getResource("........................."); This works fine when war is exploded but not when zipped. Hence I can not use JBoss maven deployments. I also have some more resources under jar files (jars inside the war file) . It is the same . I can not access them any more. I know this issue have been discussed in several post e.g. https://community.jboss.org/thread/202208 https://community.jboss.org/message/761846#761846 But none of them answers correctly. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks In advance.