&quot;scott.stark(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | Correct? Is there a full generalization super-depend element, whenRequired=X, dependentState=Y? The AbstractDependencyItem class supports this information. | Yes. There's no generic dependency in the xml, but some of the other xml lets you set both, e.g. install Programmatically, you can add whatever dependency you like. There's a feature request somewhere to let you do: | <bean ...> | <dependencies> | <my-dependency1 xmlns="foo" .../> | <my-dependency2 xmlns="foo" .../> | </dependencies> | i.e. write your own dependency like you can write your own "Requirement" in the classloaders. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4182198#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...