It Just Works. It sure does! MANY thanks...it is coming together for me now! My (poor longsuffering) wife just heard me exclaim "Gavin, you genious!" I LIKE this feature (now I understand it, of course...) This is exactly what I mean by "simple solution" and "a high-level note". When I evaluate a framework, I am looking for "added value", or more "bang for buck." This feature just did it for me ;-) I have been looking at apache shale (didn't seem enough of a "leap forward"); spring (I just LOVE the way that people are saying that EJB2.x descriptors are too complex, and then wading into spring's morasses of XML configuration; easier testability is nice, though) and Seam....Seam "felt right" to me, in terms of making proper use of the latest and greatest, but I couldn't see my way through. So: many thanks. This is Good Work. Alph. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3977220#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...