I personally prefer the overloaded API as well (I don't mind lots of methods, as long as they all belong there and it's clear what's meant to be used when.) Another thing I thought about was having the accessor/mutator for InvocationContext.setOptionOverrides() be static (or adding a static version), to at least get rid of the getCurrent() call. (The static method would do that for you). Similar to Thread.sleep() instead of Thread.currentThread().sleep(). But then I remember I'm always typing Thread.currentThread().sleep() and Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader() and having the IDE complain about the former and not the latter. That's always annoyed me. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3961599#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...