Looking at the AbstractWarDeployer this looks ok to me. So the first step would be to seperate out the runtime part of TomcatDeployer into a TomcatService or something that is constructed in deploy. Other things that look wrong are things like: | config.setSecurityManagerService(this.secMgrService); | where secMgrService is a link to the object rather than the name. This kind of think should be configured in the ServiceMetaData as an injection based on a name. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4124072#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...