For the moment I've reinstated the hack to get to the deprecated EJB 3 deployers. I've added EjbJarMetaData as an optional input, because we use it to specify overridden meta data. I don't like the exception coming from the parse method, they're non-descriptive. Shouldn't we parse standardjboss.xml on each run of the mill? If not, then we should have a line in there that says 'only parsed once, restart server if changed'. I think the latter is better, because it won't leave deployments in a state that's no longer attainable. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4094428#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...