"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : | AIUI, though, the detection of an @Singleton annotation It is might be worth supporting @Singleton as well as a special case of @Activatable if it requires less boiler plate. i.e. you can synthesize some of the metadata and make the configuration easier. e.g. @Singleton(partition="DefaultDomain" otherParam="xxx") == @Activatable(policy="SomeSyntheticPolicy") where SomeSyntheticPolicy is a generated bean definition from the @Singleton metadata such as election parameters. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4155737#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...