"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : Yes, it only adds more annotations. You can replace exisiting annotations, but not attributes Thanks Kabir, spent a bit today looking through the AOP docs for this specifically; was going to bug you about it tomorrow. :) So back to the topic; looks like we'll have to address the blank @CacheConfig.name programmatically in Ejb3DescriptorHandler with regards to container.getAnnotation(Clustered.class) ... How does my psudocode sample previously posted work for everyone? S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106218#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...