Is there some standard or default way to mark certain archives as needing exploding before doing a true deployment, or even structure deployment? Turns out, even with the .rails archives bit, the JRuby bits aren't quite happy with URLs yet. I'd like a deploy/myapp.rails file, if it's not already exploded, to get exploded under tmp/... somewhere before structure recognition and metadata deployment. But if it is exploded (or a symlink to an exploded directory tree), just use it as-is. Bonus points if the link between deploy/myapp.rails and tmp/myapp.rails/ exploded directory is kept, and undeploy/redeploy still exists. If I have to write it myself, would you think it's a PARSE stage deployer looking for .rails? Will MC hand me non-leaf VirtualFiles for deployment? "Parsing" of the archive could be a visitor that explodes it into tmp/ and then deploys that new unit? Thanks for any insight, -Bob View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4193820#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...