You're doing a bunch of different things there, but none of this stuff is really a secret. You need to be familiar with java class loading[1] and Maven's depen

You're doing a bunch of different things there, but none of this stuff is really a secret. You need to be familiar with java class loading[1] and Maven's dependency scopes[2], which is really it's killer feature. Beyond that, a container, such as jboss, is free define how its things work. One of my favorite things to come out of the Java ecosystem is OSGi, which does dependency management in a very sane way. [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/findingclasses.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/finding... [2] https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to...