I also tried playing with you embedded config to experiment with configuring deploy-hasingleton via XML. Added a clustering.profile with all the clustering infrastructure and made it a subprofile of root.profile. Then added an independent deploy-hasingleton.profile. My hope was the latter would be registered during the bootstrap and then activated when HASingletonProfileActivator became master. Didn't work -- the deploy-hasingleton.profile wasn't registered. ProfileServiceBootstrap only registers the 'embedded' profile and its subprofiles. Independent ones are not registered. OT, I'm starting to think about how to use an independent profile to do farming. A farmed profile would use a different DeploymentRepository impl. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4204866#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...