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I have written a simple deployer which is able to deploy "standalone" spring based applications. These applications/contexts can then be accessed via a Spring-FactoryBean from an other application running in the same application server. It's also possible to deploy "headless" spring based applications which doesn't need something else (timer triggered apps for example). With the spring deployment module you are able to deploy spring applications like any other JavaEE packed application ;-). A simple example can be found here: http://gaswerk.sourceforge.net/spring.html I have also prepackaged a Geronimo distribution containing this deployer called 'GASwerk Spring'. This is a Geronimo 2.0 (head) based minimal server distribution plus the spring deployment module. This is only an "earlyDraft" but I think it shows how things might work. Comments are welcome ;-) Kristian -- http://gaswerk.sf.net