Here is my guess: Web apps and web services are handled by two entirely different components. Once the decision is made to pass the incoming message to the web app component (based on the context), that component will not afterwards pass the message on to the web services component. I have never tried to place information about a web app and web service into the same web.xml file, and bundle them together into the same WAR file. It that works, perhaps that would suffice for what you want to do. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184250#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...