The deployable module is a war file with following folders: css images scripts meta-inf web-inf web-inf/classes web-inf/lib web-inf/data where the data folder contains some xml files read in by application scoped beans. The files are loaded using org.jboss.seam.core.ResourceLoader.instance().getResourceAsStream(resource). where resource values are strings like "WEB-INF/data/filename". The input stream returned by ResourceLeader is passed on to SAXReader for parsing. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116531#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...