The compile time dependency is the bad thing about annotations. You can specifiy this via xml and I would not even use the JMX annotation for something like a cache (or any core jboss framework classes) since there are likely to be many of them and no reasonable defaults that should be hard-coded. See the microntainer aop-mc-int/src/resources/tests/org/jboss/test/microcontainer/test/JMXDecoratedTestCase.xml where this is demonstrated: | ... | <bean name="Bean" class="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.support.SimpleBeanImpl"> | <annotation&gt;(a)org.jboss.aop.microcontainer.aspects.jmx.JMX(name=&quot;&quot;, exposedInterface=org.jboss.test.microcontainer.support.SimpleBean.class)</annotation> | </bean> | | <bean name="Bean1" class="org.jboss.test.microcontainer.support.SimpleBeanImpl"> | <annotation>@org.jboss.aop.microcontainer.aspects.jmx.JMX(name="test:name=NotBean1", exposedInterface=org.jboss.test.microcontainer.support.SimpleBeanImplMBean.class)</annotation> | </bean> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983323#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...