CollectioOverridePropertyUnitTestCase is fixed now (JBXB-93). Adrian, you were right in that interceptor.add() overrides handler.setParent(). I apologize. I guess the reason I got confused is that it works not the way I would like to :) It would be better to have use-local metadata/interceptor/handlers that could override their global defaults. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992108#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...