I've broken up the DSX stuff into two deployers DSXParserDeployer -- Responsible for parsing the *-ds(x).xml files to generate the JCADeploymentMetaData which wraps this in DSXMetaData DSXDeployer -- Receives the DSXMetaData, builds the ServiceDeployment/ServiceMetaData and then adds the result as an attachment to the DeploymentUnit. Taking a step back, is this how the stuff is supposed to work? Something just doesn't feel right. This is how the RARDeployer is built and I was using that as a working example, but I am not entirely familiar with the new deployment architecture. Shouldn't the RARDeployer and all JCA related stuff be moved over to the Structure type deployers. The RAR stuff as it is today seems pretty hackish. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989133#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...