I've implemented an initial version of this - it's commited in the WB-ri-int trunk. But thinking about it, the Deployment API seems wrong or useless. :-) At least in the way it's then currently used. The issues I see are the following: (a) why "List of BDAs" or what determines the order (b) "Circular dependencies will be detected and ignored by the container" I though the whole point of having BeanDeploymentArchive was to be able to get all accessible BDA's. e.g. one jar in ear sees all other jars, but doesn't see war's classes/ and lib/*.jar Currently I just map the hierarchy/structure, but this seems pretty much the same as existing flat Deployment. Perhaps all we need is getAccessibleBDAs on BDA? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246219#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...