Up until now I've been writing commands and handlers manually. It is justified in some cases like deploy for example. But I realized it's too much redundant work for commands to e.g. manage datasources, etc. What I mean is I wrote add-data-source, remove-data-source, modify-data-source. Then there could be enable, disable, flush connections, etc. So instead, I wrote one command that I called data-source. Now it looks like this (it's tab-completion) [standalone@localhost:9999 /] data-source java:/H2DS add disable enable flush-all-connection-in-pool flush-idle-connection-in-pool read-attribute read-children-names read-children-resources read-children-types read-operation-description read-operation-names read-resource read-resource-description remove test-connection-in-pool write-attribute So you can choose whatever operation you want, e.g. data-source java:/H2DS flush-all-connection-in-pool or whatever. If there are properties, it could look like data-source java:/H2DS my-operation --prop1=val1 --prop2=val2 or to modify properties of the data source data-source java:/H2DS --min-pool-size=10 --max-pool-size=100 At the end, this will save the total number of the commands, avoid possible inconsistency between commands and operations (like supported properties and even operations), the changes in operations and properties will be immediately exposed through the cli w/o changing/introducing new cli commands. In addition, this data-source thing is actually no more than an alias to the node path, i.e. /subsystem=datasources/data-source. So, actually, this can be done for any component in a generic way, e.g. jms, etc. And even it could be customized by the user at runtime. Again, that's not for everything. For things like deploy, we could keep hand-written command handlers but for the majority of the managed components this could work (although there are some operations that don't make much sense to expose, e.g. write-attribute or add as an operation on a specific data source but these could be filtered somehow). So, if anybody has suggestions or objections, please, let me know. Otherwise, I intend to do it this way. Not for CR1 though. Thanks, Alexey