"emuckenhuber" wrote : I guess you don't have a need for an VFSDeployment for your use case? well there will be a similar ProfileDeployment. No, I don't need VFSDeployment. My stuff 1) creates a ProfileMetaData from injected values, 2) asks and injected factory to create a Profile 3) calls ProfileService.register 4) calls ProfileService.activate. I don't care at all about the details of Profile, just need to have one to pass to register(). And 1,2 and 3 will go away once the XML-based approach works, at which point I'll just need to be able to create a ProfileKey to pass to activate(). :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4205262#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...