The real answer is that the annotations should be parsed to create an ApplicationClientDD before hitting your deployer. You're going to need something like eventually so you can create a ManagedObject for the profile service to use. The longer answer is that you can't do that with the AbstractSimpleVFSRealDeployer. You'll have to write an AbstractMoreComplicatedVFSRealDeployer :-) What you are really asking for is something that does setInputs(ApplicationClientDD.class) (optional input) instead of setInput(ApplicationClientDD.class) a requirement. But then you'll have to be careful about the "deployment" being null and this code in AbstractSimpleRealDeployer | public void deploy(DeploymentUnit unit) throws DeploymentException | { | T deployment = unit.getAttachment(getInput()); | if (deployment != null) | { | // Set the deployer type | unit.getTypes().add(getType()); | deploy(unit, deployment); | } | } | You don't want the deployment unit getting tagged as an appclient if it is not! :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062084#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...