First, I'm not in agreement that hot deployment of deployers is needed. The only post bootstrap configuration I can see are aspects on the deployers themselves, but this can be a function of an individual deployment, not neccessarily a reconfiguration of the deployer. Second, explain how the tree is used given a DeploymentContext representing an ear with the full contigent of javaee components, and customized aspects like security and logging. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972605#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...