I'd like to provide a mechanism where a customer of our software (running on JBoss 3.2.3) could override a property file in our standard installation. What I'm thinking of is the customer would construct a jar file containing a property file of the same name as a property file in our installation. The customer would then put this jar someplace where the deployment scanner would see it. The important part is I want the customer version of the property file to be loaded instead of the installed version. Is there a way to tell the deployment scanner to enforce a resource load order when it sees two resources of the same name?