"bstansberry(a)jboss.com" wrote : | OT: Is there a general automagic facility/utility yet for doing String property replacement when populating metadata? For org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.clustered there's still manual code that does the property replacement. You'll have to explain what you mean on a different thread. If I understand correctly ... I don't think its possible in general since in most cases MetaData.getAnnotation() will just be returning Class.getAnnotation() which is immutable, its a jdk object and we don't "intercept" the fine grained Clustered.partition() invocation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4155759#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...