anonymous wrote : I would like the code in the wars to be able to see and use the code in the ear, but I would not like the code in the ear to be able to see the code in the wars. The code in the ear will not be able to see the classes in the war by default. The war classloader is isolated. anonymous wrote : 1 application containing common code deployed as an ear. | -deploy/shared.ear Common code should ideally go in a jar file and that jar file can either be packaged in the individual war files or (although not recommended) can be put in JBOSS_HOME/server/< servername>/lib folder. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4252218#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...