This simply does not work :( There is not a single example to be found, how to access the beans defined in jboss-beans.xml from JAVA and I tried many things, none of which is working. It doesn't seem to me such an unusual idea to define beans in the xml and then use these instances within the java code (in my case a servlet). Could you please provide one WORKING example how this really works ?!!! I defined this in jboss-beans.xml: <bean name="surferCookieHandler" class="net.pelvit.tracker.jar.imp.SurferCookieHandler"> | </bean> I added this jboss-app.xml (tracker.beans is my "jar"): <jboss-app> | <module> | <service>tracker.beans</service> | </module> | </jboss-app> The in the code I used the following (as suggested by you): BasicBootstrap bootstrap; | bootstrap = new BasicBootstrap(); | bootstrap.run(); | Object target = bootstrap.getKernel().getController().getInstalledContext("surferCookieHandler").getTarget(); | Please give an example, how to really make this work because as it is, it simply doesn't and I'm beginning to think, I'm wasting my time on this microcontainer :-( View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4033927#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...