We (by which I think I mean myself, Jeremy, and David J) talked a bit at ApacheCon about changing our strategy on deplyoment descriptors. Our conclusion was that we should split the DDs up again, so that Geronimo DDs *do not* extend J2EE DDs, but we have 2 separate DD structures. As for the POJOs, we would have one set of POJOs containing both J2EE and Geronimo deployment information, in a single tree instead of a "Geronimo extends J2EE" tree (because we really have no use for a J2EE tree on its own). It would make both the schemas and the POJOs quite a bit cleaner, though we would have to do a bit of mapping at load time. This has two implications: 1) We'll have to rewrite the schemas and POJOs 2) We can't use a XML binding tool that generates its own POJOs (since we will have 2 schemas going into one POJO tree). On the up side, I've recently heard of tools where you have to configure the tool to bind XML to existing beans, so this might not be a big problem. I'm willing to undertake 1, and I'm not heartbroken by 2 (mainly because we've been having such problems with tools already). But I guess I should put in a 3: 3) The deployment process will go unstable while we work this out At ApacheCon, we decided to hold off until "after the demo". The demo is over, but now people are talking about a release. What do you think about undertaking this now? Aaron