"jason.greene(a)jboss.com" wrote : | It definitely screams for proxies, not sure about all of the AOP baggage. :) What I meant was that you could express that pojo A has hard dependency on B, but A also has lazy dependency on C. Then when A is started, it gets a the normal ref to B, but a lazy proxy of C (non-start/activated). The first call on C triggers activation of C. | | In addition, there could be some kind of lazy registry call to get a lazy ref to an MC service. Actually this is all already there. :-) See lazy element in MC schema. I just need to properly finish On_Demand handling in these lazy wrappers. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4229265#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...