"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : Alternatively, would it be possible to place the annotation causing a scoped controller on all the beans in the deployment if it is scoped and contains some aop beans? | You can already put annotation on deployment, and it's added to all beans included in this deployment. "kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : I don't know how I would determine that the deployment is scoped and contains some aop beans though if the aop stuff is in an -aop.xml and the other beans in a -beans.xml? | Perhaps new suffix, e.g. scoped-beans.xml, where you add scoped annotation to parsed KernelDeployment. Dunno how you would do it in the split case; -aop.xml vs. -beans.xml. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171046#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...