anonymous wrote : I need to look more at the DeploymentManager API; sounds like that's where ability to do things like "running the deployments across the cluster to the DeploymentStages.DESCRIBE phase" will be exposed. The current DeploymentManager SPI of distribute/start/redeploy/stop/undeploy doesn't expose a method to let a client bring a deployment to DESCRIBE or PRE_REAL. Were you thinking in terms of adding such a method, e.g. a | /** | * Bring a previously distributed deployment through the DESCRIBE stage. | * @param name | * @param phase | * @return | * @throws Exception | */ | public DeploymentProgress describe(String name, DeploymentPhase phase) | throws Exception; Another possibility is this step can be an internal detail of DeploymentManager.start() and redeploy, i.e. DeployHandler.invoke() could handle a "describe" invocation. In that case, an impl of DeploymentProgress would handle the coordination task by looping through the targets and calling "describe", "start" etc. on the DeployHandler. A problem with all of this is a DeploymentProgress instance in a remote would have no way to know about cluster topology changes that occur in the middle of an operation (e.g. new node joins in the middle of a deploy; that node never gets the update). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153802#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...