If you want to place the cfg file outside your SAR, you could use one of the jboss system properties. (http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossProperties). For example. place the cgf in server/xxx/data and locate it using the jboss.server.data.dir property. If you want to place the cfgfile inside your SAR, place it in a JAR (could be exploded) and access it using Class.getResource() or Class.getResourceAsStream(). For example, assume the following SAR layout: some.sar | + config.jar | + some | + config | + myconfig.cfg You can access the cfg file as follows: InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/some/config/myconfig.cfg") View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066266#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...