Ah ok, I understand now (my fault). I had been assuming that VFS was doing its own copy of the artifact and that the removal (or update) of the original file was only used as an indicator of an undeploy (or redeploy) to be done (then followed by a removal of the copy). But, yeah, if it does not make a copy then yes, I can see it would have serious problems to try and load anything ;-) Thanks for the clarification. Gilles. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4194162#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...