The scan of the deployment in the vdf happens during the analyze phase so that the result and associated management objects are available to the profileservice. There may not be a meaningful deployment class loader as the deployment processing can be run offline. Anything you are doing now under the current trunk branch is going to have to be ported to the virtual deployment framework based deployers. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963904#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...