"wolfc" wrote : I don't like the InjectionContainer SPI right now, because it ended up with too much stuff in it. So the current EJB3 model is not sufficient. It also seems deeply bound to EJB3 to me - IMO all that should be needed is the ability to register injection providers which are called for each possible injection point on a bean, with metadata on the injection point passed to the injection provider. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4218598#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...