This is a hot-deploy component directory. All components in this tree will be loaded after the OFBiz components, including those in: framework themes applications specialpurpose The hot-deploy Auto-Loading feature loads all components in the order they are found (i.e. alphabetic or creation date). If you need a specific loading order of these components then you need to disable the Auto-Loading feature by creating a component-load.xml file in the hot-deploy directory and use the load-component tag to load your components in the order you want (just use the component-load.xml file in the application folder as a template).