Thanks it works for private fields with ALL, and I'll get rid of the tests for private methods, setters and constructors. "alesj" wrote : | Wrt JSR330 I wouldn't follow all their rules, | I would mostly use its annotations to unify the usage, | hence increase portability. | Do you think I should implement @Scope and @Singleton? | public class SimpleFieldBean | { | @Inject | public Simple field; | | @Inject | public Simple other; | } | The way this is described is that in my original SimpleFieldBean example, if Simple has no annotations a new instance is injected for each use, i.e. field != other. If Simple has a @Scope annotated annotation, such as @Singleton, the same instance is injected, so field == other, which in effect is what we have now. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266025#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...