Two changes I need to allow for better use of ManagedProperty are to change the ManagedPropertyImpl managedObject field to be of type ManagedObject rather than ManagedObjectImpl (this is done and in the current snapshot), and also to allow a ManagedProperty to be disconnected from its ManagedObject as in not requiring this to be non-null. This is needed for deployment templates that just want to expose a set of properties that need to be applied to a template. The ManagedProperty are simple value type objects used to convey the required properties in order to populate the template. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002444#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...