That is probably true for the newer more aspectized deployers, but legacy deployers like ejb2 and the war deployer still have way too many dependencies on other jbossas pieces to pull out. The Ejb3Deployer does have other integration pieces like JBossASDepdencyPolicy, JBossASKernel, Ejb3JBoss5Deployment, so those would have to be separated out into another layer and injected when configured for jbossas. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150579#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...