With respect to fleshing out the Profile Service I'm thinking about what would need to happen to deploy a DataSource into the MC using the Profile Service, e.g. 0) Start the Server 1) Use JSR88+StreamingDeployment to upload a DataSource deployment (*) 2) Have the ProfileService pass the new deployment off to the MainDeployer. Did I miss anything? Is this about the most basic use case we can start with? (*)Do we care about whether the DataSource gets deployed the old mbean way i.e. -ds.xml, rather than the new raw MC way, i.e. -beans.xml? I'm guessing this would be related to http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3415 (Port RARDeployer). These steps would seem to require the Profile Service to have the "proper deployment repository notion " Scott mentions above. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992099#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...