huh? The MC is the only thing that knows how to instantiate some beans - the wiring for the factory method is part of the -beans.xml You are saying the profile service inserts itself after the process that parses the -beans.xml but before the bit that uses the resulting data, then takes upon itself to use the factory to instantiate the bean in place of MC doing that? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4249903#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...