Elias Ross [http://community.jboss.org/people/genman] created the discussion "jboss-scanning.xml ignored for JBoss AS 6?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/594328#594328 -------------------------------------------------------------- If you build the .war file from ( https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8786 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8786 ) and add the jboss-scanning.xml as described here: http://community.jboss.org/message/594327#594327 http://community.jboss.org/message/594327, I still see this in the logs: 2011-03-20 10:52:02,738 TRACE [org.jboss.scanning.annotations.plugins.GenericAnnotationVisitor] (HDScanner) Scanning class org.apache.commons.lang.time.FastDateFormat$NumberRule for annotations 2011-03-20 10:52:02,739 TRACE [org.jboss.classloading.spi.vfs.policy.VFSClassLoaderPolicy] (HDScanner) getProtectionDomain:className=org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils path=org/apache/commons/lang/time/DateUtils.class codeSourceURL=vfs:/Users/elias/jboss-6.0.0.Final/server/default/deploy/jarbomb.war/WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar/ 2011-03-20 10:52:02,739 TRACE [org.jboss.scanning.annotations.plugins.GenericAnnotationVisitor] (HDScanner) Scanning class org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils for annotations 2011-03-20 10:52:02,741 TRACE [org.jboss.classloading.spi.vfs.policy.VFSClassLoaderPolicy] (HDScanner) getProtectionDomain:className=org.apache.commons.lang.time.FastDateFormat$TimeZoneNumberRule path=org/apache/commons/lang/time/FastDateFormat$TimeZoneNumberRule.class codeSourceURL=vfs:/Users/elias/jboss-6.0.0.Final/server/default/deploy/jarbomb.war/WEB-INF/lib/commons-lang-2.4.jar/ Etc. The .war file contains: eroero:jarbomb elias$ jar tf target/jarbomb.war  | grep xml META-INF/jboss-scanning.xml WEB-INF/beans.xml WEB-INF/faces-config.xml WEB-INF/pretty-config.xml WEB-INF/web.xml META-INF/maven/de.chkal.jarbomb/jarbomb/pom.xml And the jboss-scanning.xml looks like: eroero:jarbomb elias$ cat ./src/main/webapp/META-INF/jboss-scanning.xml <scanning xmlns="urn:jboss:scanning:1.0"> <!-- Purpose:  Disable scanning for annotations in contained deployment. --> </scanning> -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/594328#594328] Start a new discussion in JBoss Microcontainer at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]