WFLYWELD0055: Could not index class [Someclass] from an external bean archive: vfs:/somepath/myear.ear/myejb-0.0.1.jar/META-INF/beans.xml ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-13641 URL: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WFLY-13641 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Bug Components: CDI / Weld Affects Versions: 20.0.0.Final Reporter: Jens Viebig Assignee: Matěj Novotný Priority: Major When referencing a jar with CDI scan mode "annotaded" inside an ear from an external war via jboss-deployment-structure.xml a warning will be printed for every class: WFLYWELD0055: Could not index class [Someclass] from an external bean archive: vfs:/somepath/myear.ear/myejb-0.0.1.jar/META-INF/beans.xml Seems VFS cannot get hold of the classes. The warning is logged in ExternalBeanArchiveProcessor which catches an EOFException from the inputstream loading the class. (Line 284). Seems the input stream is not able to load a single byte from the class