A common usecase is that a given deployer want to be relative to another deployer as it operates on the the metadata going into or coming out of the other deployer. To do this in a deployers getRelativeOrder method requires stepping outside of the deployer spis as the MainDeployer has no registry of deployers by name, and we don't have a notion of specifying that a deployer's relativeOrder is relative to another deployer. One way would be to expand the OrderedDeployer interface: | public interface OrderedDeployer | { | /** The unique name of the deployer */ | public String getName(); | /** The name of the deployer this deployer is relative to. A null value means the | relativeOrder is an global value. Otherwise, relativeOrder is translated into a global | order by looking up the relativeOrder of the indicated deployer. | */ | public String getRelativeToName(); | | /** | * Get the relative order | * | * @return the relative order | */ | int getRelativeOrder(); | /** | * Set the deployer relative order. | * @param order - the order of the deployer in a deployer chain. | */ | public void setRelativeOrder(int order); | ... | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982763#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...