Brian - I'm documenting my progress here as I'll be away on vacation when you return. The required dependencies are as follows. The dependency states are reversed from your example. | <bean name="DistributedReplicantManager" ... | <property name="HAPartition"><inject bean="HAPartition" state="Create"/></property> | <depends>HAPartition</depends> | </bean> | | <bean name="HAPartition" ... | <property name="distributedReplicantManager"><inject bean="DistributedReplicantManager" state="Instantiated"/></property> | </bean> | I've checked in the changes necessary to provide dependency injection and I've removed the logic that supported usage of ClusterPartition without DI of DRM (as it appears that was your intent). This implementation differs from DI of DistributedState where DS was injected into ClusterPartitionConfig which was then passed into the ClusterPartition constructor. My implementation injects DRM directly into ClusterPartition as I couldn't resolve the circular dependencies between DRM and ClusterPartition when injecting into the Config object. I'm going to revisit this as I may have missed something when trying it earlier. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4072215#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...