There are only a few ways by which you can let JBoss sort out the dependencies.
1. Default Deployment Sorter.
Sorting order:
Sorts by file extension, as follows:
"sar", "service.xml", "rar", "jar", "war", "wsr", "ear", "zip",
"*"

2. PrefixDeployment Sorter: Sorts the entries in the deploy directory and goes alphabetically.

3. I believe that with the default option, you can put archives into a deploy.last folder and that will be the last one to deploy.

I am interested in this also. I'm having IlegalAccess errors using 3.2.5 because of the order JBoss deploys my EARs.

I found a workaround: it seems like the default deployment scheme uses alphabetical sorting. Using this info, I renamed my ears 1-ear1.ear 2-ear2.ear 3-ear3.ear (if you have more than 10 ears, I guess you would use 01-, 02-, 03-, etc.)

Other than the above, is there a better way?

L

Well, it looks like it is the correct way: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=63473

Plus raja05 says so in his post also.

L

look in server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml and search for Sorter. There is a section that explains how it work.s Just uncomment the PrefixDeploymentSorter entry and you should be OK.

L

From http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=URLComparator, the ordering of suffixes is: "deployment (since 4.0)", "-deployment.xml (since 4.0)", "sar", "-service.xml", "rar", "-ds.xml", "har", "jar", "war", "wsr", "ear", "zip", "bsh", last, *

From http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DeploymentScanner, the ordering of suffixes is: "sar", "service.xml", "rar", "jar", "war", "wsr", "ear", "zip".

In my application, I try to deploy a SAR file with "ear" and "-ds.xml" but it complaints that it cannot found the datasource. In the first case, it should work as ds are deployed before ear but not in the second case where ds seemes to be deployed at the end.

What' s the right way?