"jesper.pedersen" wrote : | 3) - is done if ra.xml::metadata-complete == false. | This should just plug-in into AnnotationEnvironment. See (Filtered)AnnotationEnvironmentDeployer in JBossAS's metadata-deployer-jboss-beans.xml. "jesper.pedersen" wrote : | One question is if I need a second deployer in the PRE_REAL stage that adds the dependencies to other deployment units as defined in jboss-ra.xml | if we create annotations for describing the dependencies - e.g. RaDependencyDeployer. Otherwise this could go in the DESCRIBE phase. | I don't understand what you're trying to do here. "jesper.pedersen" wrote : | what are the best class to extend from in each deployer (AbstractVFSParsingDeployer, AbstractSimpleRealDeployer, ...) ? There are various different solutions to each of the stages. | It depends. :-) Go to deployers project and check the existing Deployer sub-classes hierarchy. Most of them have meaningful names and there's a lot of examples/tests behind them. "jesper.pedersen" wrote : | btw - is there any API documentation online that I could link my JavaDoc against ? | Unfortunately not. I'm currently trying to get at least the separate MC downloads up on the open. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4199827#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...