"ALRubinger" wrote : | My stance is that it's not always possible to do pure IoC. Seems like you object to my use of MC as an Object Store. | Not all. I showed two different ways to do just that in the original MC examples. :-) It's called the locator pattern, but how you serialize a locator which is itself non-serializable because contains references to non-serializable objects is obviously a different issue. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4151485#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...