&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : You can do this with XInclude and JBossXB. | | | | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | | | | | | | | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss-bean-deployer:2.0" | | xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> | | | | <xi:include href="someurl"/> | | | | <bean .../> | | </deployment> | | | | Why reinvent when there is already a standard? Hehe. We should ask this the Spring guys. :-) What about other stuff - 1st post? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4050491#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...