Because, during template's start we create managed properties. That belong to managed objects. So, we create template managed objects before receiving property values from the user. There is no JNDI name at this point. So, if I just use mo.getName() it will fail to find the MO. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Failed to map key: org.jboss.resource.metadata.mcf.LocalDataSourceDeploymentMetaData to managed attachments for deployment | at org.jboss.profileservice.management.ManagementViewImpl.applyTemplate(ManagementViewImpl.java:624) | at org.jboss.aop.Dispatcher.invoke(Dispatcher.java:121) | at org.jboss.aspects.remoting.AOPRemotingInvocationHandler.invoke(AOPRemotingInvocationHandler.java:82) | at org.jboss.profileservice.remoting.ProfileServiceInvocationHandler.invoke(ProfileServiceInvocationHandler.java:56) | at org.jboss.remoting.ServerInvoker.invoke(ServerInvoker.java:795) | at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.processInvocation(ServerThread.java:573) | at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.dorun(ServerThread.java:373) | at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ServerThread.run(ServerThread.java:166) | at org.jboss.remoting.MicroRemoteClientInvoker.invoke(MicroRemoteClientInvoker.java:163) | at org.jboss.remoting.Client.invoke(Client.java:1634) | at org.jboss.remoting.Client.invoke(Client.java:548) | at org.jboss.aspects.remoting.InvokeRemoteInterceptor.invoke(InvokeRemoteInterceptor.java:62) | at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101) | at org.jboss.aspects.remoting.MergeMetaDataInterceptor.invoke(MergeMetaDataInterceptor.java:74) | at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101) | at org.jboss.aspects.security.SecurityClientInterceptor.invoke(SecurityClientInterceptor.java:65) | at org.jboss.aop.joinpoint.MethodInvocation.invokeNext(MethodInvocation.java:101) | at AOPProxy$1.applyTemplate(AOPProxy$1.java) | at org.jboss.test.profileservice.test.ProfileServiceUnitTestCase.createComponentTest(ProfileServiceUnitTestCase.java:711) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121816#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...