I believe this has now graduated to a Developer's issue: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4151409 Ideally POJOs should not depend on the MC API, and could have everything injected from any IoC Container. However, this introduces a precondition that all POJOs with dependencies on MC Beans are installed into the MC itself. In many cases, this is not possible. Additionally, there are cases in which a POJO cannot have the Kernel available to it - ie. any instance that's not created by the application developer. What are the fundamental arguments against the following construct: KernelRegistry registry = KernelRegistry.getRegistry(); // Singleton | | /* | * The Registry maintains a Map of all Kernels created under a key | * of some KernelContext | */ | | // Properties from somewhere, possibly jboss-mc.properties | KernelContext context = new KernelContext(); | // KernelContext context = new KernelContext(Properties); // Valid as well | | Kernel kernel = registry.getKernel(context); ? S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4151433#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...