Ok, I'm probably going to split the deployers into multiple projects anyway, at least spi and implementation projects. I'll create a deployers-todo :-) project for this so we know it needs to really go in a jaxb-int project somewhere. I'd really like to revisit how minimal we can get the bootstrap classpath with the new OSGi style classloader. It's still not very good because of all the transitive dependencies like this JAXB deployer living in jboss-deployers.jar introduces. The xml parsing is what really kills it. :-( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036391#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...