"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | Having said that I don't see why the getters for DeploymentResourceLoader and AnnotatedEnvironment are abstract. There should be default implementations in the abstract class. | Since the owner class is in deployers-vfs-spi, which doesn't know about the real impls, e.g. DefaultAnnotationEnvironment and VFSDeploymentResourceLoaderImpl. For this I've created additional AbstractVFSStructureDeployer, which has these impls as default. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168984#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...