During the testing of new release for EJB3, it was observed that the "factory" tests failing against the Branch_5_x of AS. The failures were because of the deployment ERRORs of the ears used for these tests:

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Using reverse path on top file handler: ZipEntryHandler@425886940[path= context=file:/home/alrubinger/business/jboss/wc/jbossas/projects/ejb3/trunk/testsuite/target/test-lib/factory-test.ear real=vfszip:/home/alrubinger/business/jboss/wc/jbossas/projects/ejb3/trunk/testsuite/target/test-lib/factory-test.ear], ../util.jar
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.AbstractVirtualFileHandler.structuredFindChild(AbstractVirtualFileHandler.java:667)
at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip.ZipEntryHandler.getChild(ZipEntryHandler.java:165)
at org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile.getChild(VirtualFile.java:481)
at org.jboss.jpa.deployment.PersistenceUnitDeployment.getRelativeURL(PersistenceUnitDeployment.java:201)
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