Adrian, I'm not grokking here... I was thinking more of: | <deploymen> | <scope name="application"> | <bean name="Foo"/> | <scope name="session"> | <bean name="bar/> | </scope> | </scope | </deployment> | | Kernel app= kernel.createScope("Application"); | Kernel session = app.createScope("session"); | Or something like that. I hope you get the idea. All scoped beans would just be described and their metadata deployed into a new kernel when the scope is created. Child scopes would not be created, but instead registered with the parent scope. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008925#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...