"wichka" wrote : (1) I was wondering if the two sars in a deploy directory find jars in each others sar. Yes. "wichka" wrote : (2) Can a sar in a deploy directory find the jar in the lib directory? Yes. "wichka" wrote : My view is that sars are loaded in different class loaders and hence they can't find jars in other sars? See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassLoadingConfiguration for more information on how this works (not just for SARs but all "top-level" deployments). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3970652#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...