A thread to discuss integration between the ide and jboss5. The main 3 levels which with the ide will need to integrate are: - vfs - a simple read-only virtual file abstraction. It does have a simple link notion that allows for virtual archives to be composed of various files so that one does not explicitly need to create war/ejb archives. - deployers - structural and runtime deployment spi. This could be used directly by the ide for one off deployments. - profile service - a collection of deployments as a named profile. This would be used by the ide if one wants a notion of a collection of deployments being part of a project. See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss5DeploymentFramework for how these relate. The vfs/structrual deployers in the middle of another refactoring that needs to be completed before we can discuss how to use it. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3979166#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...