That is how its broken up currently. The WarDeployer.performDeployInternal is generating the ServiceMetaData for the TomcatDeployment mbean, which wraps the web container code. The dependencies should be added to the list of dependencies being declared in the warDeployment: | List<ServiceDependencyMetaData> dependencies = ...; | warDeployment.setDependencies(dependencies) | There should already be dependencies coming from the jboss-web.xml metadata, but I don't see this. I must have dropped it at some point. It should be there. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982155#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...