The case against this would be service beans that aren't interactive, but are background workers, and thus never invoked. So at what point do you deploy/inject those? The obvious answer is that you make those work like the current service beans (deployed at startup) but then how do you differentiate between the beans that are invoked and ones that are purely background ones? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093573#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...