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Composite Applications can use EJB and web applications. Those EJB and web applications can be deployed in one of two ways: 1. Directly to GlassFish. In other words, right-click the EJB or web application project and select Deploy. 2. As part of a JBI compliant Composite Application. In other words, right-click the Composite Application and then add the EJB or web application to it as a JBI Module. Then Deploy the Composite Application. That's all fine and well, but the IDE's GlassFish plugin does not distinguish between the two techniques when it displays the GlassFish status over in the Runtime tab. When the list of EJB applications is shown they all look the same - there is no distinction based on how they were deployed. The same is true for web applications. This seems like a problem because the application life cycle for an application deployed directly as compared to an application deployed as part of a Composite Application is very different. Seems like it would be good to give the user some visual markers to let them know which is which. Please note that whatever change is made, it should be coordinated with the GlassFish admin. console tools folks. They have the exact same problem today (and will hopefully repair it).