I've refactored the scoping/metadata. The main reason was so I can setup the scopes/contexts in the deployer layer and not have it replaced by the MC. i.e. I need to introduce application and deployment scopes which the MC doesn't know about. This also puts the framework in place for other contexts like MBeans to have annotations, overrides and the related processing. e.g. binding an MBean into JNDI using the "decorators" | <mbean ...> | <annotation>@JNDIBinding(jndiName="whatever")</annotation> | </mbean> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4079200#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...