These look like AOP features to me and would be better implemented with something more flexible than specific config options. I'd do it in a spring-aop-int project and translate the spring xml into aop/bean xml, e.g. | <aop:generated-lookup-factory name="commandManager" class="fiona.apple.CommandManager" method="createCommand" bean="command"/> | when you are asked for getBeans(); Fundamentally, you can write any BeanMetaFactory you like whether it a GenericBeanFactory, an AOP generated class or a CGLIB/javassist generated class doesn't really matter. You can always hide the implementation details in your getBeans() :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4051384#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...