anonymous wrote : Isn't this just a classic layering issue. We need to keep the core ESB code 100% deployment agnostic. Precisely. The core ESB will, ideally, be nothing more than a set of interfaces for well defined services. The framework (whichever it is) should be responsible for bootstrapping the implementations of those services into the configuration required by the deployment. But as Mark says, this is for the next release :-) Kev View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3988794#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...