"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : Right. What is needed is an annotation scanning deployer that has a plugin maps a set of annotations onto the metadata instance that resulted from the parse phase. If its a pure annotation deployment it would create the metadata from the annotations. The steps should be: | 1. annotation scanning deployer provides sets of annotations based on the types the plugins have defined. This is used to create the base metadata. | 2. Parsing deployer would create the next level of metadata that delegates to the annotation based instance. Okay, I'm working on a component that does the creation of metadata from annotations. We can hook that to a deployer. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4088796#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...