"johnbailey" wrote : | On another note, if we are going to support using the facade for any deployment even ones not originating in a OSGI Bundle, we can not assume the OSGIMetaData will be attached to the DeploymentContext. In this case, we will need to create the headers given the other MetaData available, correct? | First, OSGIMetaData should only be used for a Describe phase, to construct matching ClassLoaderMetaData. And CLMD can be attached from where ever; jboss-classloading.xml, programmatically, ... Or why do you think we need OMD? If you mean the services that can be used inside particular bundle, via ServiceRegistry, that's shouldn't be a problem. MC already has a contextual awareness. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131965#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...