Yes, if you are using the same database for development and production, you could just copy the database contents, provided that you have not, during development or testing, put a lot of things into the database that you don't want in production. As an example, I placed a lot of things into CMS to test out various directory structures, and some of those artifacts ended up with multiple revisions. But in production I wanted just the last directory structure and last version of only some of the artifacts. For this it was easier to start with a clean database with my desired CMS content as the default content. I spent a lot of time in development reinitializing everything, including the database, that I wrote an ant script to do it for me. Thus my latest portal layout was always in *-object.xml files. And it was easy to place the portal under version control as it was being developed. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4132325#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...