Java cleanse adapters, which are stored on a file system, are not physically copied to the target repository—only the references to the Java cleanse libraries in the metadata are copied. However, cleanse adapters are dynamic libraries, and metadata can change—perhaps as the result of changes to an external configuration file, or because a user has access to a new feature in the cleanse adapter.

The import and promote processes assume that the source and target environments have the same cleanse adapters configured.