"Kevin.Conner(a)jboss.com" wrote : Both MC and OSGi are lightweight and provide the functionality we would otherwise need to write. It is better for us to leverage these frameworks than it is to reinvent. | +1 Perhaps I missread Kurt anyway. Sorry if I did Kurt :-) Of course, one downside to using an "off the shelf" container is usually the generic "one fits all" configuration which can become very verbose. Not sure if that's also the case with MC. I know that Spring 2.x supports domain specific configurations on top of its container, which means you can tailor the config file to be something more meaningful to your application, while at the same time get the benefits of the container. Of course I'm not suggesting we use Spring, but I do think that's a nice container level feature. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3988787#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...