Flavia Rainone wrote: Pete also pointed out an important behaviour that should be fixed. In a nutshell, all archives visible to a BDA are scanned. In the given scenario:   ejb.jar A reaches lib2. In lib2 we have a ClassPath reference in the manifest to lib3, which is not in the classpath of the server... it is somewhere in the filesystem. In this case, for what I understood from Pete's explanations, lib3 is going to be scanned for CDI stuff. But this shouldn't happen, so we would also need a way of differentiating lib3 from lib2. I'll stop my explanation here, as I think Pete can fill in the blanks and explain this much better :-)