It's great to know that I can get to the deployment unit from a Servlet or ServletContextListener. That's pretty cool. But I want to keep my code as simple as possible. So I think a simple JNDI lookup will be best unless there is a perf reason or something else I'm not seeing. Since we must choose a JNDI name that can never change, I think I'm OK depending on that name. This is JBoss AS integration code, so I'm not worried about portability to Glassfish. :-) So are we set to go with the ValidatorFactoryJndiBinderDeployer? Is it in AS5.2 yet? What is the name I will use to find my VF? Stan View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250168#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...