Trivial at this stage I know, but it would seem to answer *some* of those questions we were talking about on the call. I am still hung up in my head about a few things: I understand a 'management view' of the an actual physical deployment (EAR, WAR, RAR), I guess what I am hung up on is what we were calling the diff/merge on the call. How does X know that Y has changed and as a result, updates Z? It's the variation between the management view and the actual physical deployment that is tough for me to get my head around at this point. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992362#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...