User development, A new message was posted in the thread "ClassNotFound error for classes in spring archives lib directory": http://community.jboss.org/message/522831#522831 Author : Mike Karrys Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/mikekarrys Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the help Ales.   I'm using AS 5.1.0.GA with the jboss-spring-3.2.deployer.   So after I wrote this I thought that maybe I should package everything in an EAR but when I do that the mavnen-ear-plugin packager converts my .spring to .jar and then can't resolve the spring context.   DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR:   Deployment "vfszip:/C:/Applications/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/avm-ear.ear/" is in error due to the following reason(s): org.xml.sax.S AXParseException: The prefix "context" for element "context:annotation-config" is not bound.   The maven-ear-plugin puts the my .spring archive in as a .jar. Does it need to be a .spring in the ear to deploy correctly or is it a configuration problem?   Thanks, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/522831#522831