If they are used by the annotations then they should be in the api. We should really look to move all the annotations (MC, Managed, etc.) to the jboss-integration project as seperate subprojects so people can consume just them for compiles as they need them No need to do this straightaway though. You'll conflict with what I'm doing if you do that now. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134840#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...