"anil.saldhana(a)jboss.com" wrote : Added to that, IMO the interceptors (including the security interceptors) should not be in the externalized project. They should be sitting in the ejb3 module in the AS workspace. So what about EJB3 Standalone and Embedded? They don't need interceptors? This isn't an AS integration point. "anil.saldhana(a)jboss.com" wrote : Only the EJB3 core code should exist in this external project. More accurately, only EJB3 Core code should live in the component jboss-ejb3-core. EJB3 has many subcomponents, and we're working to slim down "core" into other modules. "anil.saldhana(a)jboss.com" wrote : If you inculcate this, there is no need for any magical plugin that you envision and that has been a barrier to people like me, who have wasted a few man hours. Though good, the Plugin isn't "magical". It's a mechanism to allow EJB3 upgrades without having to upgrade AS. When I was developing EJB3 apps the last thing I wasn't to do was upgrade all of AS to get a feature I needed from a new release of EJB3. Now that the AS default build brings in EJB3 code via thirdparty, you'll no longer need to run it. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134999#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...