First, do not post the same question in multiple forums. Take a look at the FilterInstance attribute for the jboss.deployment:type=DeploymentScanner,flavor=URL MBean in the server/xxx/conf/jboss-service.xml file. It lists several prefixes, suffixes and file names that the scanner ignores. You could either modify one of these lists, or rename the directory you don't want scanned to match one of these. Not sure if this will do what you want, but it is worth a try. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989112#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...