The version of ManagedProperty that I have is just a wrapper for arbitrary Fields (like a JMX descriptor). It would clearly be trivial to add a Fields.CONTEXT as a standard one. The plan is that the additional fields will really be annotations on the metadata classes, making them trivial to maintain and easy to keep up-to-date. There are a number of reasons for keeping the metadata/underlyingManagedObjects seperate for the different attachments (e.g. ejb-jar, jboss.xml), while still providing a unifying ManagedObject for ease use. The most important is that you can marshall them back into the xml from the attachments. Once you've merged them into a single view, this is not in general possible. Another is that an admin console can "follow the links" to navigate through complex models, e.g. following an ejb-link to the target ejb. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995780#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...