&quot;bill.burke(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : IIRC, can't you just programmatically define your own order? Also, an annotation parsing deployer does not necessarily need to happen after classloader deployment so long as you have access to the .class file resources. (Javaassist). | Yes it does. How do you know that the related classes (e.g. the annotations themselves) have been deployed yet? That is something that I'm currently working on where you can have real classloading/deployment dependencies with the new VFS based classloader. Also, you need to know what .class files are actually in the classpath. e.g. maybe there is a filter in what will be the new META-INF/jboss-classloader.xml | <jboss-classloader> | <ignore-package>com.acme.notused</ignore-package> | </jboss-classloader> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059115#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...