Why does SecurityDeployment extend AbstractKernelDeployment? All you need is ApplicationPolicyBeanMetaDataFactory to be registered (and properly annotated) with SingletonSchemaResolverFactory. See this discussion: - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=132413&a... Or follow this test: - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/jboss-deployers/trunk/dep... btw: the problem there is this: - http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBXB-125 ;-) In other words, non-simple/primitive objects require adapters to know how to marshal them. You are missing those in SecurityDeployment package - see AbstractKernelDeployment package for annotations. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4148219#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...