The overrides only come after the bean's classloader is resolved - which is in PreInstall state. See KernelScopeInfo.addMetaData, which gets invoked with | KernelMetaDataRepository repository = controller.getKernel().getMetaDataRepository(); | repository.addMetaData(context); | in PreInstallAction class. That's where annotations from xml get into metadata repo. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087868#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...