This has nothing to do with VFS. Assuming you have an MBean with configuration files at the root of the .sar, you should be able to get to them with from the MBean class using: | // locate xyz.sar/file.cfg | InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("file.cfg"); | I suppose this will work for both packed/unpacked View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4161339#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...