Also, if we are only persisting the managed object view of the attachment, it won't be a predetermined attachment any longer. Its a delta against the original transient managed attachment, so we would have to integrate the change in a PRE_REAL deployer. Not that this is a big issue, but there is no authoritative view of the metadata out on disk somewhere. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4189503#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...