&quot;scott.stark(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | This does not say exactly when injection happens though. Ales? | What injection? Different injections happen at different states, but all these states are intuitive. e.g. at construction/instantiation --> INSTANTIATED, at property configuration --> CONFIGURED at create method invocation --> CREATE at install invocation --> depends when you call installation ... We've been over this already: - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects//microcontainer/trunk/ker... - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects//microcontainer/trunk/ker... I'm not really sure why I didn't add this dependentState option to demand: | <demand whenRequired="Start" dependentState="Create">somedemand</demand> // <-- currently no dependentState attribute | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4192642#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...