Hi Pete, Could you take a look at https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-7710 JSR-299 says that a qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) (an event qualifier type): /2.3.2. Defining new qualifier types/ /A qualifier type is a Java annotation defined as @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) and @Retention(RUNTIME)./ /.../ /10.1. Event types and qualifier types/ /.../ /An event qualifier type is just an ordinary qualifier type as specified in Section 2.3.2, “Defining new qualifier types” with the exception that it may be declared @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER})./ /.../ But the spec doesn't require to treat other kinds of @Target (for example @Target({FIELD, METHOD, PARAMETER} which is used in weld-jsf-jee archetype) as a definition error. It seems that we got it wrong and if there is any @Target except @Target({METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER, TYPE}) or @Target({FIELD, PARAMETER}) then JBT marks such definitions as errors: /Qualifier annotation type must be annotated with @Target({TYPE, METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER}) or @Target({METHOD, FIELD}) [JSR-299 §2.3.2, §10.1]/ Can you confirm that actually a qualifier type could have any @Target? Thanks.