If did the latter once, not because it is a good practice, but just because it worked and did not look to bad as an implementation View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4079978#4079978 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4079978