Here comes the reason why i need to put the files in webapp and not in WEB-INF/classes : I've got images that may be displayable on the web site and to be use for the report manager (BIRT). As you may know, BIRT need to use paths to access resources. The solution works in production ; but be careful code changes a little between a directly well formed ear and playing in a development environment with a directory-based ear. For the caveats you say : 1. Not a problem for me, i need to compute the path only one time (saved in a static field) 2. Arggh. Is it a change in the JBOSS Api ? or a bug to resolve ? Sebastien View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171158#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...