So i'm implementing it this way. On top of the different display-name i will add a: resource-bundle tag to specify a resource bundle. Values from this resource bundle will populate the database and can be overidden at runtime for people using the admin portlet. If if-exists is set to keep, values from DB are kept, if it's overwrite it will take the values from the resource bundles. That way we have something consistent that solves main use cases. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107120#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...