In the old deployment impl that was the purpose of the DeploymentInfo.localCl. However it had no integration with other deployment contexts. In the new vdf you should be able to scan for classes/resources using the vfs. This should be a common aspect that all deployers used to build up the deployment metadata from classes and xml descriptors. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963875#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...