This is done. Comment from JIRA task: Support for injecting bean name is added both to plain bean and to beanfactory as well: | <bean name="MyPlainBeanName" class="org.jboss.test.kernel.deployment.support.NameAwareBean" name-method="applyName" /> | <beanfactory name="MyNameAsFactory" class="org.jboss.test.kernel.deployment.support.NameAwareBean" name-method="applyName" /> | You have to specify name of the method that will handle bean name injection - in this case it is applyName method on NameAwareBean class. It's a method support, not a property support, so setters should be fully written. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063855#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...