"alesj" wrote : | If there is a bean attribute on the element as well, should I do the actual bean context lookup and perform the fromContext on that context? | Yes, that's what I said about resolving aliases. Another one might "give me the scope of another bean" | <property name="scopeOfX"><inject bean"X" fromContext="scope"/> | P.S. I'm not suggesting you implement anything other than "name" for now, but make it easy to add new ones as they are demanded make sense. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4065442#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...