The beanFactories is the only manged property in the KernelDeployment currently, so that is what I used. If its really the BeanMetaData from their getBeans(), then effectively the managed property is the beans. So if its changed to a collection of beans (BeanMetaData) this is equivalent to call the deprecated setBeans() method on the KernelDeployment. Why is it deprecated? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4187872#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...