"emuckenhuber" wrote : | So basically what happens to restore the attachment is: | * createVFSDeployment(profilservice-datasource.ear) | * deployment.setPredeterminedManagedObjects(...) | * mainDeployer.add(deployment) | | Now i'm wondering how those attachments should get populated to the child(s)? | The test-ds.xml should be against a subdeployment of the ear. Your problem is that you now have the -ds.xml attachment against the top level ear as a predetermined managed object and against the test-ds.xml subdeployment which is still created by the parsing deployer since it doesn't exist at that level. Have a look at jboss.deployment on the jmx-console for the ear to see what structure you should be using and where the attachments live. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4183305#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...