&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : In fact, the solution should really be that the type specified on the collection | overrides this feature. But currently this is not the case. | | i.e. the following should always create a new array list not use the getter. | | | | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | | | | <deployment xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | | xsi:schemaLocation="urn:jboss:bean-deployer bean-deployer_2_0.xsd" | | xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | | | | | | <bean name = "Manager" class = "PluginManager"> | | <property name = "bootstrapPlugins"> | | <list elementClass = "java.lang.String" class="java.util.ArrayList"> | | <value>Test</value> | | </list> | | </property> | | </bean> | | | | </deployment> | | I'll turn the 'preinstantiate' to false by default. So this will then work out-of-the-box. And if you explicitly tell to use preinstantiated, then the class attribute will be ignored in the case getter returns non null instance. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4060425#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...