The depenendencies work at the STAGE level, not the flow level. They are primarily being introduced for classloading dependencies, so one deployment that depends upon another module won't create its classloader until a dependent classloader is constructed (and vice-versa at undeployment). Similary, there is a new "INSTALL" stage, which is where the real REAL deployers :-) should be. i.e. the ones that create (it should be register) the runtime objects. So you can do things like "All or Nothing" by requiring that all deployments in a group, (e.g. an EAR) have passed their "REAL" stage successfully before they are all moved to the "INSTALL" stage. In that context, "REAL" is not such a good name anymore. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062343#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...