"scott.stark(a)jboss.org" wrote : | It can, and currently does. Its just needing to rebuild the bean metadata list for the components for each new instance even though all that changes are the underlying mc bean names. In terms of types of metadata and relationships between then, nothing changes once the factory is initialized. If there was a name indirection on the dependency values then only that piece would need to be updated. | You can't install the BeanMetaData twice (i.e. use it as template) until Ales has finished the clone() stuff. "adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | This code is checked in the jboss-kernel project tests under org.jboss.test.kernel.deployment.support.container.{spi,plugin}. | Ok, I'll look at it once I've finished what I'm currently working on. Does it have a test that shows what it is supposed to do but doesn't currently? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4143116#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...