As of JDK 7 the function of PropertyEditorManager has been changed to only work per ThreadGroup. See https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4763 How is this issue going to be resolved for AS 7? Then I can adapt something similar for EAP 5. I myself am thinking about ditching PropertyEditorManager in favor of an InstanceFinder<PropertyEditor> through the jar service loader. Carlo