We've previously talked about the deployers being an integration point with AS, and therefore should be placed within the AS source tree. Why is this the case? I thought the deployers only depended on (sometimes each other and) MC. If they were to be removed, we wouldn't have to mock up/recreate their functionality when Unit Testing other areas that depend on Deployers' output. As a concrete example, the EJB3 Proxy Component makes use of output from the MergedJBossMetaDataDeployer and Ejb3Deployer. Am I mocking up this data when I could be setting up an MC Deployer Chain from the real thing? S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150577#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...