Scott is working on the EJBs where field injection is heavily used, and he needs this asap. :-) e.g. | <bean name="mybean" class="org.jboss.acme.MyBean"> | <field name="somefield"><inject bean="somebean"/></field> | <field name="mynumber" class="java.lang.Long">123456789</field> | </bean> | Is there a reason why we never mentioned/implemented field injection? AOP is one for sure. But if the pojo is not aspectized, then it should be OK, otherwise just a reasonable error/info should be thrown. Or what's the difference between invoking method vs. field via reflection on the AOP proxy? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135632#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...