Of course now that I think of it, I'd like other deployers to be able to produce metadata instances for the various Remoting entites, so that deployments can be dynamically created - I guess that implies that each metadata type that can produce a bean or beans ought to implement BeanMetaDataFactory. I guess in this case my "outer" metadata unit is just a "holder" for the different types of actual metadata. In this case I guess I won't implement BeanMetaDataFactory on it, but rather on each metadata class that translates into beans. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4139013#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...