You need to take a step back and explain it from first princples. e.g. You've reused the MetaDataVisitors to do what? They look at the MetaData object not the real object graph how does this relate to annotations are you talking about the annotations in the xml? Why would the annotations be already processed? Short of finding the time (I don't at the moment) to do a code read on all these changes (not just the latest stuff), I can't really comment. I can say from that code that was broken, I don't like the idea of hardwiring those annotation handlers What was it something like? | Adapter[] adapters | { | ImplementationDetail1Adapter.INSTANCE | ImplementationDetail2Adapter.INSTANCE | }; | How does one add ImplementationDetail3Adapter or use AlternateImplementationDetail1Adapter.INSTANCE. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4070642#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...