Index: src/test/java/org/jboss/test/virtual/test/JARVFSContextUnitTestCase.java
===================================================================
--- src/test/java/org/jboss/test/virtual/test/JARVFSContextUnitTestCase.java	(revision 78106)
+++ src/test/java/org/jboss/test/virtual/test/JARVFSContextUnitTestCase.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,11 +26,13 @@
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.jar.JarEntry;
 import java.util.jar.JarInputStream;
 
 import junit.framework.Test;
 import junit.framework.TestSuite;
+
 import org.jboss.virtual.VFS;
 import org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile;
 import org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.file.FileSystemContext;
@@ -268,20 +270,25 @@
             "web_pkg_scope/servlet/",
             "web_pkg_scope/entity/Account.class",
             "web_pkg_scope/servlet/JpaServlet.class",
-            "META-INF/",
+      // META-INF/ gets gobled up by JarInputStream constructor
+      //      "META-INF/",
             "META-INF/persistence.xml"
       };
       JarInputStream jis = new JarInputStream( classesURL.openStream() );
       HashSet<String> missingEntries = new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(entryNames));
+      Set<String> excess = new HashSet<String>();
       int count = 0;
       JarEntry jarEntry;
       while((jarEntry = jis.getNextJarEntry()) != null)
       {
          String name = jarEntry.getName();
-         missingEntries.remove(name);
+         boolean removed = missingEntries.remove(name);
+         if(!removed)
+            excess.add(name);
          count ++;
       }
       assertEquals("No missing entries: "+missingEntries, 0, missingEntries.size());
+      assertEquals("Excess entries: " + excess, 0, excess.size());
       classes.closeStreams();
    }
 
Index: src/main/java/org/jboss/virtual/plugins/context/zip/ZipStreamWrapper.java
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--- src/main/java/org/jboss/virtual/plugins/context/zip/ZipStreamWrapper.java	(revision 78106)
+++ src/main/java/org/jboss/virtual/plugins/context/zip/ZipStreamWrapper.java	(working copy)
@@ -21,15 +21,11 @@
 */
 package org.jboss.virtual.plugins.context.zip;
 
-import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
-import org.jboss.virtual.VFSUtils;
-
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
@@ -40,6 +36,9 @@
 import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
 import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
 
+import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
+import org.jboss.virtual.VFSUtils;
+
 /**
  * ZipStreamWrapper - for abstracted access to in-memory zip file
  *
@@ -170,9 +169,18 @@
       while(it.hasNext())
       {
          InMemoryFile memFile = it.next();
-         if (memFile.entry.getName().startsWith(path))
+         ZipEntry oldEntry = memFile.entry;
+         if (oldEntry.getName().startsWith(path))
          {
-            zout.putNextEntry(memFile.entry);
+            String n = oldEntry.getName().substring(path.length());
+            if(n.length() == 0)
+               continue;
+            ZipEntry newEntry = new ZipEntry(n);
+            newEntry.setComment(oldEntry.getComment());
+            newEntry.setTime(oldEntry.getTime());
+            newEntry.setSize(oldEntry.getSize());
+            newEntry.setCrc(oldEntry.getCrc());
+            zout.putNextEntry(newEntry);
             zout.write(memFile.fileBytes);
          }
       }