The KernelDeploymentDeployer just exposes the KernelDeployment BeanMetaData as well as free BeanMetaData attachments to the BeanMetaDataDeployer, which deploys the beans to the kernel. In general you have to call getAllMetaData to process the multiple BeanMetaDatas, and you also have to look at KernelDeployment attachments as a container of BeanMetaDatas if your going to run at POST_PARSE. Running as a REAL deployer that consumes BeanMetaDatas allows the KernelDeploymentDeployer to do the work of unwrapping the KernelDeployment for you. The deployers are ordered by their inputs/outputs so that is why it works. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4167473#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...