I had thought about that last night. Just tried it out and it will work. Not exactly the solution I wanted, but it is at least another option, so thank you! There is an APP-INF folder because the EAR was initially designed for Weblogic, and APP-INF is their extension (well one of the project team seems to think it is a standard, but I don't believe him since I could not get any official confirmation on it so I am going with extension). So in jboss-app.xml I added: <jboss-app> | <library-directory>APP-INF/lib</library-directory> | </jboss-app> And that works for the lib directory. This whole thing is not a big deal, I just wanted to see if there was something I could config so that I could easily go back and forth since we want to support it on both JBoss and Weblogic with minimal config/rearranging differences. p.s. about Spring, so do I. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4165942#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...