Its doubtful. Its likely just a port of the j2ee1.4 resolution semantics to the vdf classes in jboss5. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3985628#3985628 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3985628