I may be wrong in that analysis, looking further. I'd assumed conf/ is recursively loaded. bootstrap.xml does not directly reference the bootstrap/profile.xml any more. There's a bootstrap-minimal.xml and bootstrap-norepo.xml that do reference it though. If the VFSDeploymentScanner isn't actually being used (I'll check in my logs in a minute), then I don't know what the problem is. But I'm still seeing the problem. And something is causing deploy/myapp.rails to go through structure recognition before HDScanner does its first run. Structure recognition is coming after my JEP installation. But I'm still ending up with a FileHandler'd archive if myapp.rails is in deploy/ at boot time, but getting a correctly handled vfszip if HDScanner picks it up post-boot. I'll keep digging. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4193484#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...