We're depending on EJB real deployers.
We need to investigate whether we really
need to depend on these EJB deployers.
Maybe using JBoss meta data would be sufficient?

Some time ago also Adrian Brock wrote (see http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059197#4059197):
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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.
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The only possible problem that comes to my mind is
whether we're able to implement JBossWS injections
without depending on EJB real deployers?