"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | Anyway, like you say, this is a trivial feature, its the serialization and alias stuff that I was more referring to. The alias feature was there long ago, even introduced at R&D presentation. ;-) But it was done wrong. The idea stayed the same. Only the impl improved. It improved on your comment of being a full dependency. :-) The current impl is good - it does exactly what we want. I think it will be useful, once people have a lot of beans to handle. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063898#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...