In accordance with various embodiments, described herein are systems and methods for use with a multi-tenant application server environment, that support provisioning of domain partitions for use with software applications, including the provisioning of partitions with required components. Provisioning requests that are received at a lifecycle manager, and that specify the provisioning of a particular partition, can be communicated to a provisioning framework, for use in provisioning the partition, including where appropriate, the use of component-specific handlers that recognize partition provisioning events or control actions such as, for example, copying files, executing scripts, or updating configurations.