I think we need some notion of scoped names that allows this to be done easily. This seems to be needed in order to resolve item 2) as well. A proper alias would then be a simple name in a scope that links to the scoped name to which the alias resolves. Regarding 1), I'm not clear on what the relationship is between the kernels, names spaces, and type systems are. I'm assuming that whether or not the type systems are isolated/shared is strictly a function of the bean configuration in the kernels. Based on the initialization algorithm Adrian described, it should be possible to pickup the beans in a given state across the graph of kernel instances. Are you traversing all contexts across all kernels for a given state? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4020138#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...