"heiko.braun(a)jboss.com" wrote : A custom deployer (stage=REAL) depends on the TransactionManager. I tried the MC 'depends' clause, however when the undeployment kicks in the dependency is not satisfied anymore. | Who's undeployment and which dependency? If TM is undeployed, your deployer is un-winded as well. "heiko.braun(a)jboss.com" wrote : | What would be the proper way to set it up? AFAIK the deployer ordering is done through the input and output set definitions. So it's probably independed of the IOC dependencies, but is there a way to achieve what I described above? | Achieve what? You might run into this: - http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=151549 View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4218250#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...