Prav Ford [http://community.jboss.org/people/lordpraveen] created the discussion "Re: JBoss-classloading.xml in EAR /EJB" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/563451#563451 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi  Ales, I checked  org.jboss.deployers.plugins.classloading.AbstractClassLoaderDescribeDeployer. if (deployment.isTopLevelClassLoader() == false) {      if (deployment.getParentDomain() == null) {             deployment.setDomain(unitName);             log.debugf("Will use synthetic domain for classloader of subdeployment: %1s", unitName);      }else{              log.debugf("Will create top level classloader for subdeployment: %1s", unitName);      }   } If an EJB (with jboss-classloading.xml) is bundled within the EAR file , there is a need to specify just the parent-domain and not the domain. <classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0" parent-domain="DefaultDomain"     export-all="NON_EMPTY" import-all="true" excluded="META-INF">     <capabilities>         <package name="com.ejb1.interface" />     </capabilities> </classloading> That  solved my EAR usecase. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/563451#563451] Start a new discussion in JBoss Microcontainer at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]