While looking at the scoping changes, I discovered some wrong methods on the KernelControllerContext. To repeat what I said before, most of the runtime state/config should be done through the DependencyInfo not the ControllerContext. Where the ControllerContext holds state it is simply useful information to prevent repeated access/construction, e.g. BeanInfo in the POJO stuff or the legacy ServiceContext in the MBean stuff. I removed applyMetaData() since that was completely unnecessary. I factored out the MetaDataVisitor implementations from AbstractKernelControllerContext to make it obvious that this stuff doesn't need to be in the context and is entirely orthogonal. I moved isAutowireCandidate() to the DependencyInfo where it belongs. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4078895#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...