Forgot one other requirement. SCOPING Each deployment should be automatically assigned a "scope" which should then be used to tie the deployment and JMX/POJO contexts together. e.g. The deployment might a scope: application=some.ear A subdeployment the scope application=some.ear,deployment=sub.war An MBean created for this deployment application=some.ear,deployment=sub.war,instance=jboss.web:servlet=MyServlet The rules to create these scopes will also allow a scoped metadata deployer to be written, e.g. load additional contextual metadata from a jboss-meta.xml and also tie into the scope/naming rules for JSR77. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036385#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...