&quot;david.lloyd(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : | What about some kind of mechanism to allow users to combine descriptors into a single file? You can already do this. It's called 'urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0'. ;-) | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | <bean name="blah"> | ... | </bean> | | <classloading xmlns="urn:jboss:classloading:1.0"> | <capabilities> | <package name="foo.bar" version="1.0"/> | </capabilities> | </classloading> | | <jbossxb-parser .../> | | ... | | </deployment> | That's the whole point on having wildcard on BeanMetaDataFactory in KernelDeployment. And your metadata implementing it. Or how is your suggestion different from this? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4190016#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...