I think that mazz is right. When we used a tool that manages dependencies, we don't care about the number of jars. Consequently, with maven, number of jars is not a problem. If you have to do that manually, number of jars is a nightmare ... Having just a list of the jars and their version used for hibernate-all.jar and thirdpartytool.jar will probably make everyone happy :-)) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975010#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...