I would think it would be directly in the form of a property reference. It should be in terms of a value of some higher level setting like the server default bind address. This may be defined by the jboss.bind.address property at runtime. We have not really gotten into talking about how the metadata repository fits into the admin interface. A discussion of some of the mc issues is here: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=85442 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4043071#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...