I don't understand what the issue is here? You've always been able to override the order that ejbs/wars get deployed in. This is the "relativeOrder" property on the ContextInfo http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/projects/jboss-deploye... and works the same way as the old suffix ordering in jboss4.x It's just that the WarStructure deployer doesn't set it. Of course this doesn't work (in the same way it didn't work in jboss-4.x) if the war has external dependencies that aren't satisifed immediately. But then that's the problem with using "heuristics" instead of real dependencies. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4139834#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...