Hi all: Last week we made available ShrinkWrap Descriptors 1.2.0-alpha-1. The scope of this project is very simple: Provide a object model DSL for metadata. For instance: final WebAppDescriptor desc = Descriptors.create(WebAppDescriptor.class) .createSessionConfig().sessionTimeout(timeout) .getOrCreateCookieConfig().name(name).domain(domain) .path(path).maxAge(maxAge).up() .trackingMode(TrackingModeType._COOKIE.name()).up(); final String exported = desc.exportAsString(); As contrasted with jboss-metadata, this intentionally does not take into account concerns like business logic (ie. validation, setting default values) or merging. Also the implementation uses our own manual hierarchal state, so it's much faster than something like JAXB. I'd like to invite everyone to check it out. Everything in the api-spec and api-jboss modules is subject to change, and we'll want to ensure the API is something we're comfortable we're supporting before this reaches a Beta-level release. http://jboss.hudson.alrubinger.com/job/Descriptors/javadoc/ https://github.com/shrinkwrap/descriptors A large portion of this development has come from the community, which is something we're very proud to say. S, ALR -- Andrew Lee Rubinger Senior Software Engineer JBoss by Red Hat Twitter: @ALRubinger http://about.me/alrubinger