The root element probably still needs the namespace, so my 2 previous examples should read | <aop xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0"> | <bean name="Bean" class="Foo"/> | <aspect class="MyAspect" scope="PER_VM"> | <property name="thing">XXX</property> | </aspect> | </aop> | | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | <bean name="Bean" class="Foo"/> | <aspect xmlns:aop="urn:jboss:aop-beans:1.0" class="MyAspect" scope="PER_VM"> | <property xmlns="???" name="thing">XXX</property> | </aspect> | </deployment> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4134225#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...