Is there anything new on this topic? I did it in the same way as described in the original posting, with the same negative result. The .rar is not found if it is inside the .ear, no matter if the .rar name in the -ds.xml is qualified or not. However, with the -ds.xml inside the .ear and the .rar deployed separately, it is working again. Is there no way to deploy a .rar inside an .ear? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982151#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...