Why don't you write it as: | <bean name="EARStructureDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployment.EARStructure"> | <property name="comparatorClassName">org.jboss.system.deployers.LegacyDeploymentContextComparator</property> | <!-- uncomment to disable xml validation property name="useValidation">false</property --> | </bean> | | <!-- application.xml parsing deployer --> | <bean name="AppParsingDeployer" class="org.jboss.deployment.AppParsingDeployer"> | <property name="useValidation"><inject bean="EARStructureDeployer" property="useValidation"/></property> | </bean> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178283#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...