&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : | To make this work for generic scopes, the annotation will need to be meta-annotated | so we know what it means: | | | | public interface ScopeFactory<T extends Annotation> | | { | | ScopeKey create(T annotation); | | } | | | | public class InstanceScopeFactory<InstanceScope annotation> | | { | | public ScopeKey create(InstanceScope annotation) | | { | | return new ScopeKey(CommonLevels.INSTANCE, annotation.value()); | | } | | } | | | | @ScopeFactory(class=InstanceScopeFactory.class) | | public @interface InstanceScope | | { | | /** The bean name */ | | String value(); | | } | | For the last example we probably need new annotation with the same name as ScopeFactory interface. Any other possible name or diff package? I'm currently putting these things into org.jboss.metadata.spi.scope and org.jboss.metadata.plugins.scope in Container. What about in the case when Scope annotation doesn't have a factory determining annotation? Ok, since we are the ones that will be providing these scope annotations, we can throw an exception or should presume some default ScopeKey? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4013145#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...