"alesj" wrote : "jason.greene(a)jboss.com" wrote : or better yet automated on first non-lifecycle MC method access. | How would you do that? | | Which beans should be automated? | How would you know what to fully install (which beans to activate)? | | You need extra info. | And annotations are a perfect fit. | Not to mention that "first access" screams for AOP interceptors. :-) It definitely screams for proxies, not sure about all of the AOP baggage. :) What I meant was that you could express that pojo A has hard dependency on B, but A also has lazy dependency on C. Then when A is started, it gets a the normal ref to B, but a lazy proxy of C (non-start/activated). The first call on C triggers activation of C. In addition, there could be some kind of lazy registry call to get a lazy ref to an MC service. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4229113#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...