Just to clarify, "prpo" wrote : jaikiran, | When I mean clients, yes I meant ejb, war,ear etc. | When the shared-library.jar file is packaged with the ejb, I do not want them to set java2ParentDelegation=false | I do not want to expect that users will create their own jboss-app.xml and set java2ParentDelegation=false for this to work. "prpo" wrote : | However, the problem I am running into with this scenario when shared-library.jar is not placed on /server/default/lib is that the ejb cannot find log4j.properties (or xml) when it just packaged with ejb.jar | There are so many combinations I could try here. a) Just package the shared library with the ejb - no overriding of java2ParentDelegation - Does not locate the log4j.xml Any insights? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4185467#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...