Scott, I need some guidance here. The servlet class defines the @RunAs annotation. Hence the web.xml servlet definition has no need for an explicit run-as element. Now the JBossWebMetaData merge fails with the following RTE. | // Update the run-as indentity to use the principal name | if (webXmlRunAs == null) | { | throw new IllegalStateException("run-as-principal: " + principalName + " found in jboss-web.xml but there was no run-as in web.xml"); | } | This is because the webxml metadata is not aware of the annotation. Shouldn't Carlo's annotation deployer kick in before the webmetadata parse? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4138537#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...