Hi, I have 2 solutions for you : - you can easily extend the JBoss DeploymentSorter. Then declare the new class in jboss-service.xml in URLComparator. - you can define dependencies between jmx names. You can say for example that the war needs an ejb or an ear or a sar. There is only one limitation : you can't define a dependency deployement for an ear. But you can set a jmx-name so that others can depends on this ear. Example : in you war's jboss-web.xml, you can set <jboss-web> myservice:service=OwnService </jboss-web> In this case, you war won't deploy until OwnService is deployed. Vincent View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168379#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...