"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : I thought that's what the SchemaResolverDeployer was doing, and in fact that was the whole point of making my DeploymentMetaData implement BeanMetaDataFactory. | SRD just does what you told it to do - create a custom DeploymentMD. :-) The fact that it implement BMDF only comes handy in case I mentioned before - if it is used inside MC's deployment element. "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | If not, isn't this a step that would have to be duplicated for every project that has a customized XML deployment format? | | Or, are you suggesting that I should use the MC's root deployment element instead? Yes, then you don't need that extra deployer. But if you still want to have your custom xml with your custom root, then there is no other way - at least not out-of-the-box. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4152508#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...