"mwringe" wrote : "alesj" wrote : alias.txt only works in top deployment: | | - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-deployers/trunk/dep... | | So in other words, a zipped deployment isn't support to work the same as an unzipped deployment. Doh? Why? What? My guess is next: Your unzipped deployment has no '.' in the name, hence it's considered as 'grouping' directory - the recursion I mentioned kicks in. And then each sub dir is an actual top deployment. In the zipped case the archive is top deployment. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4218440#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...