@Startup annotation...

[patrick_ibg]

Can I safely use this for application components without specifying the "depends" parameter? What I probably want is for all the built-in components to be started before my application component is invoked. Not sure how to do this with the semantics of "depends".

[gavin.king]

Should be able to, unless your application component does in fact depend upon one of the built-in components.

Note that depends is ONLY needed if the dependency is implicit (ie. you access something the other component puts in JNDI or something). If you have an explicit dependency using @In or Component.getInstance(), depends is never needed, since Seam can take care of starting things in the "right" order.