Its too weak from a type perspective, and it does not allow things like: 1. having the value of a property be described as an injection 2. having the value of a property be described as another bean's property 3. have the xml declaration of the value come from another namespace with its own custom schema binding/factory. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982207#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...