That is an mc supplies notion with duplicate resolution based on the precedence number. It still leaves the problem of knowing what the universe of suppliers is. I suppose if seam components are deployed at the application phase in terms of the profile service notions of bootstrap, deployers, application phases, the phase deployer processing defines the supplier universe. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4009604#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...