I talked to Kabir. We could control instantiation of interceptors by using Factories (witch is a straighforward and documented way), but getInstance is not exposed. So, I requested a feature that will be useful on future releases. http://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAOP-338 I won't use such feature now as we will stick with delegates or with the muliple valves. (something we will have to decide later), but I think the feature request is valid. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998026#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...