Its done dynamically as part of the deployment processing of the profile. If a DeploymentContext does not have predetermined managed objects its run through the MainDeployer.process to the CLASSLOADER_DEPLOYER and then the profile.updateDeployment so that the attachments can be saved. Its just object serialization of the context attachments object at that point using the serializer associated with the repository. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002139#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...