The property replacement during the parsing is coming from JBossXB. This is redundant since the microcontainer does do property replacement during the setter, see ValueConvertor.convertValue() invoked indirectly from the StringValueMetaData. To turn off the JBossXB processing we need to change the schema bindings: e.g. in BeanSchemaBinding20 public static void init(SchemaBinding schemaBinding) { + schemaBinding.setReplacePropertyRefs(false); initDeployment(schemaBinding); initBean(schemaBinding); initBeanFactory(schemaBinding); initArtifacts(schemaBinding); } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4005222#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...