&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : Question: Do you really want an aop:bean? Is that just for ease of use? No, I didn't understand properly and blindly followed your example :-) Now it makes a lot more sense wrt @XmlAnyElement. I now have | @XmlElements | ({ | @XmlElement(name="aspect", type=AspectBeanMetaDataFactory.class), | @XmlElement(name="interceptor", type=InterceptorBeanMetaDataFactory.class), | @XmlElement(name="bind", type=BindBeanMetaDataFactory.class), | @XmlElement(name="stack", type=StackBeanMetaDataFactory.class), | @XmlElement(name="typedef", type=TypeDefBeanMetaDataFactory.class), | @XmlElement(name="cflow-stack", type=CFlowStackBeanMetaDataFactory.class) | }) | @XmlAnyElement | public void setBeanFactories(List<BeanMetaDataFactory> beanFactories) | { | super.setBeanFactories(beanFactories); | } | and that works great. Thanks for your help View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4132452#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...