Actually one more question - are the locks held when doing auto-wiring and injection and that sort of thing? In other words, if I have beans A and B, and I want a property from A to be injected into B, will the same lock be held that is used to change states during the injection? I'm concerned more about memory visibility than locking here. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130849#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...