What can we do here? Move scope merging to ScopeInfo. e.g. | void mergeScopes(ScopeInfo other, ScopeType type, ScopeLevel... excludedScopeLevels); | Where type is: DEFAULT, MUTABLE, INSTALL. We would then in BeanMDDeployer exclude CommonLevels.CLASS ScopeLevel. Or is there some meaning that DeploymentUnit overrides this? This would also require that KernelScopeInfo lazily creates default Scope - so that we don't touch CommonLevels.CLASS, due to possible CL-not-yet-available issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4185095#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...