hey, you brought it up yourself ;-) It could ofcourse be left until runtime, but then the parent process won't run since the subprocess is not there. You have to react to that as well. IMO you do not want runtime errors because of this and thus want to have all processes deployed when you start some new instance. A CMDB would be great for this, either way right? Or do I mis something? If it is just the order, you could create a small ant script that deploys all the relevant processes in the correct order. This ant script could probably be generated from the CMDB. We try to automate as much of this as possible to prevent errors, deploy time or runtime View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3956918#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...