"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. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246727#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...