"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : | Its equivalent to creating an attribute with a ServiceDependencyValueMetaData as its value. | Yes, but my point is we don't modify (normalise) the metadata after the user creates it in the ServiceMetaData. The user has to know that a depends optional attribute is really two different pieces of metadata programmatically. Anyway, this is an issue brought up by Ales that is unrelated to the actual topic. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131321#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...