"PeterJ" wrote : This does not directly answer your question, but why are you not using the "provided" scope. | In my case they are all transitive dependencies that need to be excluded. So yes, I could add them as top level provided dependencies or add them as 'excludes' but it is a pain. Plus, in other cases, say I want to include the latest Hibernate libraries. I hit the same classloader problem that I thought isolation was supposed to solve. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4179183#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...