"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : And, is it better to make a separate deployer for each type, or to have one deployer that covers everything? | I would go with separate deployer for each type. Since that was our intention with the aspect deployers. To have small fine grained easily changeable components. Perhaps follow this discussion between runtime and deployment process architecture: - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124055#... "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Finally, is it better to use JAXPDeployer/JAXBDeployer(s) or is there a more preferred way to deploy using an XML configuration? | I would go with the new thing that we will introduce: - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/cont... - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/cont... We already have MC bean metadata annotated, just need to switch the current BeanDeployer to use this jbossxb-builder. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124520#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...