Sorry, this is a technical requirement of using CDI to provide plugins with injection, and it also prevents a whole lot of redundant class scanning that would really be a performance problem, but we did consider this approach initially. Lincoln Baxter's Droid http://ocpsoft.com http://scrumshark.com Keep it simple. On May 9, 2011 6:45 PM, "fluids liu" <flowas(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: