"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : Looking at the current usage in ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml I don't see anything that looks like changing the value of the attribute of an existing annotation; just the addition of annotations if they are missing. There may be some secret sauce in jboss-aop to do this, although I doubt it. Even if there is, I gotta imagine the xml to specify it would be really complex/breakable. Yes, it only adds more annotations. You can replace exisiting annotations, but not attributes View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4106182#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...