RUNTIME MODE AND PREDETERMINED ATTACHMENTS The parsing deployers are still invoked for these. But they should be written in such a way that if there is a predetermined attachment they don't do the parsing. They still might do other work after the parse! There are complications like the XSL deployer which needs to be changed so you can pass in some form of DOM representation as the predetermined attachment and still do the XSL transform on it, but this is an exceptional case caused by badly written deployers that don't have a proper metadata model. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005242#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...