"weston.price(a)jboss.com" wrote : | 2) Eliminate the problematic elements from the *-ds.xml deployment (ie MBean definitions) that get in the way of making the unmarshalling a simple process, or at least find someway to work around this. | | This was actually my initial approach but the MBean definitions inside the *-ds.xml got in my way. | Ok, but at that point you have a new an incompatible ds.xml descriptor. What I'm talking about is morphing the legacy ds.xml into ds2.xml that is a perfectly parsable, aspect oriented delight. Its whatever the lesser of two evils is, an essentially hand-coded xml parse/deserializer or xsl. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4022689#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...