anonymous wrote : Why would you want to recurse into a metadata location? | I don't think that's a "natural" behavior. Well this is not the reason we are using it for right now but there might be the need to have a META-INF/services directory containing Service Provider coniguration files and you might want to include it in the search. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4226493#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...