Brian....so, if we attach the lifecycle of the child nested bean to that of its parent, will there be no problems? Another thing we could do is if the parent is removed, we can replace the Proxied with the real thing. It seems to me though that if you don't tie the lifecycle of the child to the parent, then if this usebase becomes prevalent, there could could quite possibly be orphaned beans. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008020#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...