This "deployment level" is a JBoss specific thing right? Shouldn't these types of annotations be driven by a metamodel rather than annotations? This way an annotation processor augments existing metamodel data. I ran into this problem as well, so what I did was process XML and annotations separately. What I should have done was combine them into one meta object model and work from there... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977331#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...