It's certainly possible, but that doesn't mean it is a priority. Since you can already declare your dependencies at the more granular (and arguably more correct) level, e.g. my war depends upon that ejb in a different deployment, I wouldn't describe it as a high priority. For me its just an "ease of use" feature such that in simple cases means you only have to declare one piece of configuration. In more complex cases, it wouldn't even work because the broad brush configuration is likely to lead to circular dependency problems (with dependencies going both ways between the ears). And such a configuration (where you don't declare the true dependency) is suspectible to breakage during refactoring, e.g. an ejb moves from one ear to another. The other reason it's not a high priority is because you can already decide what order applications should be started in using something like the prefix deployment sorter (modulo no other dependencies causing indivdual components to wait). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158362#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...