This also relates to the metadata repository and loaders notion where the source of a property can start out coming from an xml file on a server, and then be overriden by a management layer to redirect to an ldap server/database. I can see plugging different sources of property values, but its not clear that supporting ldap namespace syntax is an mc concern. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066248#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...