There are two "types" deployers
#1 generic
#2 mc framework specific
https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBOSGI-180
The generic deployers are used by the jboss-osgi-microcontainer bundle, the jbossas integration for felix/equinox and the mc framework. They are generic in a sense that they only have a dependency on the org.osgi API and not on any specific framework implementation.
The specific mc framework deployers are an integral part of that framework. They have a dependency on implementation details and also need to be available to run the tests
A possible structure that allows generic and specific deployers to move together would be
framework
+- core
+- deployers
+- testsuite
We may revisit this issue when the framework starts to fall into multiple modules.
