Right, so the ServiceDeploymentDeployer sees a non-null/non-empty services list and then adds these as components to be deployed without doing any parsing: | if (services == null || services.isEmpty()) | return; | | for (ServiceMetaData service : services) | addServiceComponent(unit, service); | If you populate the ServiceDeployment services and bypass the xml config this should still work. I don't see why it would not. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3989131#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...