"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : | In this case "MANUAL" means just register the profile but don't activate it; activation requires that something call ProfileService.activateProfile(). | | Probably different terms than the ControllerModes would be better since the semantics are not identical. Basically all Profiles are getting registered as ON_DEMAND - so unless you don't have a dependency on it, it will not get activated unless you explicitly activate it :) But implicit dependencies with xml processing are also one issue i want to discuss here. As this is not very nice at the moment. I've got a basic example where you can boot a web-profile, based on the "all" config (so you have the contents of the all config, but only web is loaded) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204457#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...