"PeterJ" wrote : Just now noticed that Weston's post was last year, not last month. So the question is - is it still true? Is *-ds.xml being deprecated????? -ds.xml is not deprecated , the XSLT deployment process is deprecated which can been seen from the jboss-5.0.0.CR1\server\default\deployers\jboss-jca.deployer\META-INF\jca-deployers-beans.xml <bean name="JCAMetaDataRepository" class="org.jboss.resource.metadata.repository.DefaultJCAMetaDataRepository"/> | | <!-- RAR Deployment --> | <bean name="RARParserDeployer" class="org.jboss.resource.deployers.RARParserDeployer"> | <property name="metaDataRepository"><inject bean="JCAMetaDataRepository"/></property> | <property name="type">rar</property> | </bean> | | <bean name="RARDeployer" class="org.jboss.resource.deployers.RARDeployer"> | <property name="workManagerName">jboss.jca:service=WorkManager</property> | <property name="XATerminatorName">jboss:service=TransactionManager</property> | <property name="type">rar</property> | </bean> | | | | <!-- ConnectionFactory Deployment - -> | | <bean name="ConnectionFactoryDeployer" class="org.jboss.system.deployers.ServiceXSLDeployer"> | <property name="suffix">-ds.xml</property> | <property name="XSLPath">stylesheets/ConnectionFactoryTemplate.xsl</property> | <property name="type">jca-ds</property> | </bean> | | --> You can notice that XSLDeployer(ConnectionFactoryDeployer) is deprecated and the RARParserDeployer/RARDeployer is used . View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4153466#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...