getBeanFactories() should return both beans it should affectively be: | <bean name="xxx"> | <property name="blah"> | <inject bean="yyy"/> | | <bean name="yyy"> | Additionally, it should be possible to not have a name for the internal bean which would translate | <bean name="xxx"> | <property name="blah"> | <bean/> | to something like | <bean name="xxx"> | <property name="blah"> | <inject bean="GUID"/> | | <bean name="GUID"> | Of cource, GUID (globally unique id) could be more meaningul in some cases e.g. above xxx$blah for the simple property injection above. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968588#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...