The problem with this is that it works fine for Seam or Spring where you are only dealing with a single application with a fixed set of deployments. The MC has to deal with hotdeployment where beans can be added at anytime. e.g. suppose we define a jboss-jca group so you can depend upon all of jca being deployed, but then you add a new rar to the jboss-jca group? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008923#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...