Hi, the tomcat annotations-api.jar has the following annotations: ================= anil@localhost:~/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/lib$ jar tvf annotations-api.jar 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:40 CDT 2008 META-INF/ 106 Tue Jul 22 02:00:38 CDT 2008 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:32 CDT 2008 javax/ 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/ 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/ 637 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/Generated.class 396 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/PostConstruct.class 390 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/PreDestroy.class 1179 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/Resource$AuthenticationType.class 903 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/Resource.class 427 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/Resources.class 433 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/DeclareRoles.class 393 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/DenyAll.class 409 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/PermitAll.class 447 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/RolesAllowed.class 418 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/annotation/security/RunAs.class 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/ejb/ 629 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/ejb/EJB.class 398 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/ejb/EJBs.class 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/ 737 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceContext.class 1085 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceContextType.class 459 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceContexts.class 404 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceProperty.class 524 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceUnit.class 450 Tue Jul 22 02:00:30 CDT 2008 javax/persistence/PersistenceUnits.class 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:32 CDT 2008 javax/xml/ 0 Tue Jul 22 02:00:32 CDT 2008 javax/xml/ws/ 633 Tue Jul 22 02:00:32 CDT 2008 javax/xml/ws/WebServiceRef.class 434 Tue Jul 22 02:00:32 CDT 2008 javax/xml/ws/WebServiceRefs.class ============================================= Some of these are generic cross cutting annotations that should not reside in for example, the jboss ejb3 jars. Carlo had mentioned sometime back that he intends to pull out the annotations from ejb3 into a separate module under javaee project. I created https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBEE-32 for this. Regards, Anil