anonymous wrote : From this document, am I correct to infer that if scoped class loading is enabled using com.example:archive=unique-archive-name | in jboss-app.xml, the sub-modules in the ear (WAR, EJB-JAR) don't inherit classes in the jar libraries from parent EAR/lib/ ? or does this apply only to "sibling" EARs? Both? You are scoping the entire EAR file, which means the WAR/EJB-JAR within the EAR will share the classes present in the EAR. However the other EAR(s) (i guess that's what you meant by "sibling") will not have access to these classes. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4146527#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...