[jboss-as7-dev] ExternalContextMBean replacement?

I've heard a few times of people looking for a replacement of the functionality provided by the old ExternalContextMBean in AS v < 7. 1) Are there any workarounds or alternate approaches that can provide a similar thing? David Lloyd mentioned "maybe via @Startup @Singleton with a bind statement or something...". I'm not sure if bind() does the trick, since AIUI what's needed is a new subcontext, not a binding in an existing context. 2) If not, what would it take to allow binding a reference to an external context into the server JNDI tree? I had a very brief look at this, and it seems context's are actually MSC services that follow a particular service naming pattern. Is some sort of SPI to solidify that contract an option? -- Brian Stansberry Principal Software Engineer JBoss by Red Hat