So it is working as expected, but having the deployer interact with the kernel registry of deployers to figure out a deployer relative order is really a kludge. First, this cannot be tested trivially as there is no requirement by the MainDeployer for the deployers to even be registered with the kernel. It a propagation of usage context details like running in an mc that should not be needed. I'm going to start a pojo server thread to talk about handling this as the MainDeployer level. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982759#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...