Currently the WarDeployer bean is o.j.w.t.tc6.deployer.TomcatDeployer, which is combining the functions of starting the embedded Tomcat itself and of deploying webapps. If I understand Adrian correctly, he's saying these functions should be separated. That certainly seems cleaner and will eliminate the dependency issue with ClusteredSSO. Scott, you mention WarDeployer.performDeployInternal -- looks like that class is a pure deployer. Is the plan to switch over to that class, which would allow us to deploy tomcat itself via the DeploymentScanner? The WarDeployer would then need to add a dependency on the embedded Tomcat service itself to any TomcatDeployment mbean. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982171#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...