We can't actually cutover head to the new deployers yet. There is one key piece missing. We don't have a mechanism to add deployers that are not in the bootstrap classpath. e.g. The rar deployer needs classes from jboss-jca.jar so it cannot be instantiated from deployer-beans.xml What I propose we do is we change the profile service to be more like the old JBoss4 mechanism such that it does something like: Pseudo code: | // conf/jboss-service.xml - for the classpath | DeploymentContext ctx = main.addDeployment(profile.getBootstrapURI()); | main.process(); | | // Run the remainder of the bootstrap under the | // bootstrap uri's classloader | Thread current = Thread.currentThread(); | ClassLoader cl = ctx.getClassLoader(); | ClassLoader old = current.getContextClassLoader(); | current.setContextClassLoader(cl); | try | { | main.addDeployments(profile.getDeployerURIs()); | main.process(); | | // Now do the rest of the deployments | } | finally | { | current.setContextClasLoader(old); | } | Where we really want to get to is hot deployment of deployers which is an issue that I'll deal with on a different thread. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972523#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...