Wow, that totally changes my perspective (again). I think what I really want to do is to just provide a way to specify the various I/O beans, because that's all my (incorrectly-named) "deployments" really are for the most part. So I guess what I need to do is to figure out a way to "merge" in my metadata with the regular BeanMetaData - should just be a question of some JAXB research I hope... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4152532#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...