I was looking at Seam and their concepts of scopes. He has differently deployed components that are deployed statically, but are created as part of a particular scope: i.e. A Session or a Conversation. So, when a particular Scope is created (i.e. a Session) the component is instantiated and configured based on the component.xml file. In MC land, this would translate to describing each bean deployed to a particular scope and this meta cloned to a new kernel that finally installs the beans. It would be cool to get the things that make sense that are duplicated in Seam into MC so we can unify things. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008891#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...