Ok, I see what you are doing. Each alias is associated with a name | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | <alias name="Test">MyAlias</alias> | </deployment> | So you're saying I want to alias the context "Test" with the new name "MyAlias". And this is a seperate deployment to where "Test" is defined. It's an interesting idea. But if this really is the solution then it needs some kind of marker in the component to say it is "NOT REAL", otherwise other stuff built on the deployers like what I'm going to do with the metadata repository and jsr77 or what the profile service is doing is going to get very confused. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062009#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...