Its a third party lib that i use that loads the resource file so i cant change how this works.It does this by getting hold of the class and then class.getResourceAs(). As a work around for the moment i have copied the properties file into the "work directory" but this would not be an ideal solution for me. The war file is also part of an ear file so deploying an already exploded directory is not an option!! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4112713#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...