At Alfresco we also struggled getting our Spring-based framework working on JBoss 5. We have lots of bean definition files using classpath-based pattern matching. E.g.: <import resource="classpath*:alfresco/patch/*-context.xml"/> We think we now have a solution and your feedback is welcome. I eventually created a subclass of XmlWebApplicationContext that used a generalized version of VFSResourcePatternResolver that subclassed ServletContextResourcePatternResolver. FYI I had to fix the logic to deal with relative path matching and matching of directories. I also made the resolver behave as normal on other app servers when not dealing with vfs URLs. See http://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/pro... and associated classes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4227295#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...