I mistakenly started the discussion on the Issue Tracker.. well my understanding of reading the collection instance from the bean rather than replacing it is as follows | public class MyClass | { | private List<String> list; | | public List<String> getList(); | | public MyClass(){ | list = new ArrayList<String>(); | list.add("One"); | list.add("Two"); | } | } | <property name="list"><list><value>Three</value><list></property> | So it seems to me that after bean initialization the bean will be having One-Two-Three as the member of the list property. Just wanted to know if this is exactly whats gonna happen ? because if this is the case, I feel is not the conventional behavior where setter is supposed to replace the property. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3968726#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...