"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : I'm fuzzy on the bean factory details in terms of whether the pooling is something that can live in the mc code. | To repeat my 'proposal' more publicly. I don't know how much this would help, but we can make our MC beanfactory more flexible by doing something like this: e.g. able to change the underlying impl class from GenericBeanFactory to anything that implments BeanFactory And I would also change the BeanFactory.createBean() method signature to createBean(Object... args). Being able to pass in additional information when creating/pooling bean. And we wouldn't be breaking any previous beanfactory usage. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134906#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...