OK, good. Putting a bunch more classes into common-core didn't have a good feel to it, kind of the first step on the road to making common-core a dumping ground. If there's another natural home for this style of class, that's better. Except...I do think MarshalledValueIn(Out)putStream belong in common. Server or aop version, whichever. Unless I missed something those are just utility classes. Having to pull in an aop-mc-int binary just to use those 2 kinda sucks. Unless in the end anyone who uses them (i.e. JBC) is going to end up depending on the microcontainer binaries anyway. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3971460#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...