I had a look a while ago, and how the metadata tree hangs together isn't totally clear to me yet, but I will take a look unless you have made a start. I'll try to duplicate/replace the functionality that we already have for the old metadata as a start. I think that the bean-level annotations should go in at CommonLevels.INSTANCE? My main question at the moment is what goes in above? Is this the stuff from the deployers, i.e. 2) above? What happens if the tree above is empty? For 3) IIRC all that it was possible to annotate was at bean level or for properties, so for properties the name of the getter/setter is used at present. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982474#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...