Rather than simply add a parent notion to the DeploymentUnit, I want to change the notion of a top-level deployment to be a org.jboss.util.graph.Graph and have the deployment unit relationships mirrored in the various views: - Structural deployers produces a Graph rather than a StructureMetaData instance of ContextInfo. - StructureBuilder produces a Graph from the Graph - MainDeployer.process produces a Graph - The management view of a Graph is a Graph - The diff between the base Graph and application of a admin change set in terms of a Graph is a Graph This should really only affect the StructureDeployers, MainDeployer and ProfileService. Deployers would still operate on a DeploymentUnit, and existing usage of the DeploymentUnit.getDeploymentContext.getParent() would simply use the Graph. This would be accessible from the DeploymentUnit. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993209#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...