Hi everyone, I have a bunch of EJB stateful and stateless beans I would like to deploy on a JBoss server. These beans have methods in them that read from a props file (using the getResource method to find the props file). To avoid hard-coding the path of this props file, I want to include it in my JAR file that gets deployed. However, when I do that, JBoss throws exceptions during deployment that say things like: could not initialize deployment error parsing meta data jar When I take the props file out of the jar and hard code the path (which I obviously don't want to do), the error is gone and all runs smoothly. Does anyone know why this might be happening and how to fix this? Thanks! Jeff View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3975773#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...