&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | The issue appears to be that for the plain deployment, | we don't necessarily have the classloader from which we can | create the annotations. e.g. | | | <deployment> | | <classloader><inject name="BeanConstructedLaterOrInThisFile"></classloader> | | <annotation&gt;(a)from.that.Classloader&lt;/annotation&gt; | | </deployment> | | | It could create a static MetaDataLoader if the class loader was not a bean or not a bean that was available, otherwise how could a MetaDataLoader that was a bean be integrated into the deployment MetaData view? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4193867#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...