"derek.adams" wrote : Deployment of the actual providers that implement functionality for the EPRs is something I have been wondering about too. | You mean the service implementations, right? anonymous wrote : Right now, the providers for file, FTP, JMS, etc are tightly coupled to the framework itself. | OK, maybe you don't ;-) Can you explain? anonymous wrote : It seems like the providers should be deployed separately in their own SARs, and hot-deployed by the ESB. The SAR would include all of the implementation code and some kind of descriptor that contains a list of the EPRs available from the provider. Each EPR listed would have a unique identifier so that it could be referenced from the -esb.xml to create an EPR instance (would require using the generic schema elements rather than the provider-specific ones). | This is slightly confusing, but then that could be because I don't get the "provider" definition. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037640#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...