"alesj" wrote : Regarding this: | - http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBDEPLOY-10 | | What kind of annotations should we scan for? | I currently just ported what is already in the real EARStructure (in AS5_trunk), which is just recognizing ear's children. | | With annotation scanning, I really think we should do this in generic fashion, once for all utils/frameworks that depend on annotation existence - e.g. EJB3, Seam, ... | Providing the hooks for them to plug-in into our generic solution and get pre-scanned results. Or making this lazy, and let them trigger the initial scanning. Yes the deployers should provide a mechanism where relevant other deployers can take part in a single annotation scan (or avoid the scan althogether if everybody agrees the deployment is 'metadata" complete). But create a different thread for different issues. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135916#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...