"bill.burke(a)jboss.com" wrote : | I think I see what you mean. Thread scope would want to obtain metadata from both its transaction and conversation. Is that what you're talking about? | Yes it is similar to the AOP scoped metadata, but I rewrote it in the container project to introduce type safety, annotation overrides, internal caching (if required) and an abitrary scope concept. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4009496#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...