I also would like to do that: reuse that jboss code to distribute my config files to all nodes in the cluster. What i currently do is this: i just put them in the farm folder, and ignore the deployment-errors about them :) then i make a softlink deploy/data.war to the farm folder; this way, my remote java client application can also download these config files (but of course also my ear file huh) I read the file in my server code like this: properties.load(new FileInputStream(new File(System.getProperty("jboss.server.home.dir") + "/deploy/data.war/config.properties"))); View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4173982#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...