"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : So in reality for the javaee ear structure deployer, it should not matter if it used its class loader to access the annotations. Just in general a structure deployer should not be loading classes that may be application specific. Yup, that's the case here. OK, I'll try to extract my previous code - or see if it can be directly reused - to add ear scanning for javaee annotations. Or even generic for structure deployers as well. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4151850#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...