If I remember correctly, the context root comes from the jar file name. Are both of your jar files named the same? It would appear that the standards define how the default context root is defined, but always leave it up to the implementation to specify alternate context root (hence the context-root entry in the jboss-web.xml file used in war files). Of course, I could always be wrong. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4045635#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...