"alesj" wrote : "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : They should not be limited to a single global static list. | | | Hmmm, here practice proves you wrong. ;-) | We already went by this approach and it didn't work out - see below. | | "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | | And it's not appropriate for an archive deployer to explicitly manage nested archives of a type with which it is not familiar or authoritative over. | | | They can do the reverse, simply state the ones they are not able to support from the global ones. | Which is usually a small set, whereas you can easily miss some that you do. The issue probably stemmed from the fact that archives were always auto mounted. With the new system, archives that are not recognized/supported by any deployers or classloaders or whatever are simply ignored and treated as regular files. We should never need to worry about a global list because the various deployers will always pick up what's theirs. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246734#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...