"jaikiran" wrote : | | 1) What does @Depends signify at a field/method level? I thought @Depends was more for specifying a dependency. But going by the code in the DependsMethodInjector/DependsFieldInjector, it seems to be doing injection. | Just read the javadoc of org.jboss.ejb3.annotation.Depends: anonymous wrote : | Annotation for specifying a deployment dependency for a bean. If placed on a setter method or field an MBean proxy will be injected as well. So injection is intentional. "jaikiran" wrote : | 2) Is this a valid use of @Depends? | Based on the above javadoc statement, looks like a valid usecase. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4200759#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...