"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : In terms of having the override associated with the jboss version of the metadata, its not really needed and could be dropped. So we're going for complete inheritance to parse ejb-jar constructs in jboss xml? "scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : I do think we do need the merge logic between the spec and jboss classes in the various classes for ease of maintence. Agreed, we must have some class hierarchy for merging, so we might as well the classes themselves responsible for that. As soon as we drop override, it should clear up a bit. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4097502#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...