&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : Actually, I'm wondering whether this feature shouldn't just be a part of the | | | <inject/> | | | xml. | I thought of that too. But we already stuffed 'inject' with all sorts of things - bean property, contextual injection, fromContext. The concept is the same, but lets keep it separate, not to confuse people with too many configurations - specially if we want to have shorthand single parameter value-factory. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4066172#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...