&quot;scott.stark(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | How would one define a new profile with a collection of standard jbossas deployments then? | Hmm not sure if got your question, but once going to a xml description of profiles, the creation of the profiles should be based on the meta data type and the corresponding factories: e.g. http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/system/src/resources/parsing... This has not been discussed a lot, therefore how you exactly are going to specify the profile is still open :) This depends on how the structure of "common/*" looks like, maybe we have some aliasing for the jboss-profile-source. But in general you should just need to say <jboss-profile> and the profiles, deployments which are required. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4214278#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...