"emuckenhuber" wrote : | This has not been discussed a lot, therefore how you exactly are going to specify the profile is still open :) | This depends on how the structure of "common/*" looks like, maybe we have some aliasing for the jboss-profile-source. But in general you should just need to say <jboss-profile> and the profiles, deployments which are required. The test.xml example is a little too file based to be a general metadata view unless the source can be taken as just a URI to be resolved by something. So I would expect test.xml to be something like: | <profiles | xmlns="urn:jboss:profileservice:profiles:1.0" | name="profiles"> | | <profile name="immutable"> | <profile-source> | <source>jboss-deployers:javaee5-deployers</source> | <source>jboss-bootstrap:conf/bootstrap.xml</source> | </profile-source> | <sub-profile>ejb3</sub-profile> | <deployment>myEjb3Deployment.ear</deployment> | </profile> | | <hotdeployment-profile name="mutable"> | <profile-source> | <source>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy</source> | <source>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy2</source> | </profile-source> | <sub-profile>immutable</sub-profile> | </hotdeployment-profile> | | <maven-profile name="maven" xmlns="urn:jboss:profileservice:profile:maven:1.0"> | <profile-source> | <source>http://repository.jboss.org/maven2</source> | </profile-source> | <sub-profile>hotdeployment</sub-profile> | <deployment>org.jboss.jboss-profileservice:profileservice-spi-6.0.0-GA</deployment> | </maven-profile> | | </profiles> | where both the profile metadata and interpretation will be a function of the factory that matches up to the metadata. This is an aside to the original question of how to create the profile. So, if creation of a profile is a process of supplying the profile metadata to a factory, that would be fine. It would not matter whether the bootstrap and core profiles are immutable as I don't expect the profile to be iteratively created in terms of adding core deployers, bootstrap deployments. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4214305#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...