"beve" wrote : In our case the file we are looking of is in a subdirectory and I think this is the problem. | getMetaDataFiles does not look for files recursively in all metadata locations. | Why would you want to recurse into a metadata location? I don't think that's a "natural" behavior. Looking up too much might lead to weird behavior. e.g. someone might have META-INF/backup/copy-my-jboss-beans.xml Hence only "you" know what you wanna scan as sub-dir, where as META-INF is by the spec. "beve" wrote : | This might be by design but is there a way for us to accomplish this? | You can add all the possible metadata sub-directories as metadata locations. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4226484#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...