anonymous wrote : | I think the factory here just acts as an object that knows how to provide you with default configured Kernel. | But you can instantiate it yourself (hence public ctor) and configure it differently. | Ah, ok. I just wonder that generally factory methods are used for hiding the object creation details. Thanks; View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4239443#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...