anonymous wrote : This should just plug-in into AnnotationEnvironment. | See | (Filtered)AnnotationEnvironmentDeployer in JBossAS's metadata-deployer-jboss-beans.xml. Do you have an example somewhere ? I'm not running in the AS -- this is for the standalone JCA container directly on the MC. anonymous wrote : I don't understand what you're trying to do here. I need somewhere to add one or more dependencies on beans already in the INSTALLED stage. The dependencies are listed in our jboss-ra.xml file. Best practices for that ? anonymous wrote : 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. package.html files would be nice to get an overview... but I'm reading through the -spi directories currently - and with AnnotationEnvironmentDeployer I guess deployers-vfs also. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200126#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...