I'm going to go back to the jbossws codebase instead of the varia strategy and try to fix the build so at least it becomes reproducable. Once that is done, I'll do the updates for the new deployers. Then we can finally do a release and get webservices working again in the appserver. Even after this, there are lots of issues about whether webservices should be depending on things like ejb3 at all. It should certainly have access to its metadata for deployment purposes, which is one of the reasons we have started a "metadata" project so projects can share each others models. Webservices seems to have one (WebservicesMetaData) which should be moved there. I don't understand why you wrote your own parsing routines instead of using the ObjectModelParsing deployer. Well, actually I do, its because you're doing some stupid double parse where you first parse to DOM to check the namespace then parse again using JBossXB????? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059197#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...