I'm looking at the Seam component model to see how it could be merged with MC. Here's an interesting feature they got. When you deploy a component, it can have both dependencies as well as a precedence level. Basically the precedence level is a numerical value of where in the chain the component should be deployed. Gavin uses this so that somebody could say: "I want this component deployed after all Seam BUILT IN components". Maybe we could translate this into logical groupings of beans: | <bean name="Foo" group="BUILT IN" .../> | <bean name="Bar" group="BUILT IN" .../> | | | <bean name="MyStuff"> | <depends-group>BUILT IN</depends-group> | </bean> | "MyStuff" would have a logical dependency to Foo and Bar through the "BUILT IN" tag. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008899#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...