The way we do it in the RHQ configuration API is each configurable entity can have an arbitrary # of uniquely named templates, but the template with the name "default" is the default template, which is used in certain use cases where the client just wants a template to use to create an entity of that type and doesn't care or know about any other template that may exist. API-wise, we provide both a getTemplate(String name) API and a getDefaultTemplate() API, which is actually just a shortcut for getTemplate("default"). http://svn.rhq-project.org/repos/rhq/trunk/modules/core/domain/src/main/j... View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4220221#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...