I like the idea but the tag should probably look like this: @DataModel(impl="my.package.MyDataModel") View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968000#3968000 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3968000