Brian Stansberry [http://community.jboss.org/people/bstansberry%40jboss.com] replied to the discussion "To scope or not to scope (domain.xml)" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/536610#536610 -------------------------------------------------------------- The tricky part about this is the  "not care about which deployments are needed for this" bit. Well, thinking about it maybe not all that tricky. :) The clustering services come in 4 general "categories" 1. Core capabilites (jgroups integration, infinispan integration) 2. Remote access stuff (HAPartition for cluster-aware proxies, HA-JNDI). You don't know if this is needed as the requirement comes from * an annotation on an unknown EJB in deploy/ * a completely unknown remote client that wants to use HA-JNDI 3. HASingleton (which is just a different use case for HAPartition), no added services 4. Misc odds and ends So, a <cluster/> element itself implies a need for 1. A couple attributes on <cluster/>, default = true, could control 2 and 3. I'd have to look more closely at the 4 stuff, but I suspect it's either so lightweight we just include it if 2 or 3 are needed, or we can detect the need for it from what other capabilities are required. So, yeah, using <cluster/> as a trigger to add some extra capabilities sounds good. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/536610#536610] Start a new discussion in Management Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]