I had been considering moving __JBossInternal__ to be an adjacent node to the initial referring node. For example attach("a/b/c/User", user); would result in: /a /b /c /User /__JBossInternal__ The problem is, of course, that multiply referenced nodes could cross, so in your case shared references between sessions would be a problem. -Jason View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4056980#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...