This is probably what Adrian said earlier in that other thread, but basically when I am putting the AspectManager into the MDR that is in the main controllers MDR. Similarly, PreInstallAction uses that repository for the context's ScopeInfo. However, in DescibeAction we use the following to obtain the repository | KernelMetaDataRepository repository = controller.getKernel().getMetaDataRepository(); | Beans deployed to the scoped controller get a different MDR from the main one, and there is no link between the two. Is adding a link possible so that there is a notion of a parent MDR? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4169278#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...