Although thinking about it. I actually don't see why it wouldn't be valid. Perhaps you really want what is stated there, that in that particular stage, you have the explicit input/output ordering. Regardless that the stages don't match, e.g. output coming in later stage than the input whereas this would come in play when new deployer with matching input/output is added View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4240068#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...