Jim Tyrrell [http://community.jboss.org/people/jtyrrell] replied to the discussion "Annotation based Action classes" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/550059#550059 -------------------------------------------------------------- I think the name attribute started with me looking at this and playing in the IDE some.  I think it is important to have the ability to rename the way a method/action is invoked outside of renaming the method.  Since we are helping POJOs get onramped to the bus, it is important for compatibility with other external libraries that I might to call it something other then the name of the method.  I would further argue that if it is in the xml it should be in an annotation, and if it is in the annotation it should be in the xml.  I would think the Seam/Hibernate guys might have some thoughts on this that you can apply. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/550059#550059] Start a new discussion in JBoss ESB Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]