That is exactly what I had and which does not work, see my first post... Reorganising the code a bit | private void getDependencies(ArrayList<ValueMetaData> dependencies, MetaDataVisitorNode node) | { | if (node instanceof AbstractDependencyValueMetaData) | { | dependencies.add((AbstractDependencyValueMetaData)node); | } | | Iterator<? extends MetaDataVisitorNode> children = node.getChildren(); | | if (children != null) | { | while (children.hasNext()) | { | MetaDataVisitorNode child = children.next(); | getDependencies(dependencies, child); | } | } | } | 1) getDependencies() gets called with an AbstractBeanMetaData, this finds a child and calls getDependencies() 2) getDependencies() gets called with an AbstractPropertyMetaData (child of 1), this finds a child and calls getDependencies() 3) getDependencies() gets called with an AbstractValueMetaData (child of 2), this finds a child and calls getDepedencies() 4) getDependencies() gets called with a PropertyMap (child of 3), this finds a child and calls getDepedencies() 5) getDependencies() gets called with a PropertyMap$ValueInfo (child of 4), this has no children and the loop returns Looking at the PropertyMap$ValueInfo, it contains the AbstractInjectionValueMetaData I want, but no way to get hold of it. From my debugger: | node PropertyMap$ValueInfo (id=113) | hashCode -2147483648 | log Logger (id=118) | name "dependency" (id=120) | toString SoftReference<T> (id=124) | value AbstractInjectionValueMetaData (id=126) | PropertyMap$ValueInfo seems wrong, replacing | public Iterator<? extends MetaDataVisitorNode> getChildren() | { | return value.getChildren(); | } | with | public Iterator<? extends MetaDataVisitorNode> getChildren() | { | return Collections.singletonList(value).iterator(); | } | I get this for 5) onwards: 5) getDependencies() gets called with a PropertyMap$ValueInfo (child of 4), this finds a child and calls getDepedencies() 6) getDependencies() is called with an AbstractInjectionValueMetaData and the dependency is picked out as expected. So either PropertyMap$ValueInfo.getChildren() needs to be fixed, or you need to come up with something else if that fix is not valid. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4209080#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...