There are a couple of related checkComplete issues, and yes, a missing dependency at the end of a deployment won't be enough to fail it. The current deployment process() call needs to perform a checkComplete type of validation to detect unresolved dependencies. I have upped the priority of JBAS-4292 to critical for beta4. http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4292 http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4684 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4123772#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...