anonymous wrote : Is there a order in which jboss loads it's deployed applications Yes. anonymous wrote : and if so can this order be influenced? Yes again. There's a jboss-service.xml file in %JBOSS_HOME%/server/default/conf (replace "default", in this path, with whatever server configuration you are using) which specifies a URLComparator which is used by the DeploymentScanner for ordering the deployments. Extract from that file: anonymous wrote : | The URLComparator can be used to specify a deployment ordering | for deployments found in a scanned directory. The class specified | must be an implementation of java.util.Comparator, it must be able | to compare two URL objects, and it must have a no-arg constructor. | Two deployment comparators are shipped with JBoss: | - org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter | Sorts by file extension, as follows: | "sar", "service.xml", "rar", "jar", "war", "wsr", "ear", "zip", | "*" | - org.jboss.deployment.scanner.PrefixDeploymentSorter | If the name portion of the url begins with 1 or more digits, those | digits are converted to an int (ignoring leading zeroes), and | files are deployed in that order. Files that do not start with | any digits will be deployed first, and they will be sorted by | extension as above with DeploymentSorter. By default it is set to org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter. You can provide your own implementation if these 2 classes shipped by JBoss do not meet your requirements View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3984135#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...