Well, it turns out actually not to be true, so I either misunderstood the wiki page or it works differently than described there :). I wrote two simple apps which reference the same class that is deployed parallerly to the two .ears and they are both loaded by the same classloader. Though, of course, my original problem doesn't yet reproduce :) -- Adam View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4118730#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...