Support for an alt-dd specification at the WebMetaData level has been added. The org.jboss.test.web.test.AltDDUnitTestCase illustrates this from the ear application.xml level. The jbossws deployer could just set this directly on the WebMetaData instance before the war deployer runs. The alt dd needs to be in the unpacked war WEB-INF directory. The WebMetaData specification is treated as a deployment relative path that is first treated as a war WEB-INF path, and then as a path from the root of the top level deployment. This is copied into the expanded war WEB-INF as tomcat needs to see this as an absolute file path currently. There are changes in both the mc jboss-deployers.jar and tomcat jbossweb.jar to support this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3985688#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...