"alesj" wrote : The builder just builds metadata. | Annotation's metadata population happens only in Describe state, | as we know there that our CL exists == can do class info inspection. | Makes sense. "alesj" wrote : | I looks like you're actually trying to do what AnnotationToBeanMetaDataFactory is meant for. After looking at the AnnotationToBeanMetadatFactory, i don't think that's what i am after. So to give you an exact idea of what i am trying to do: I am dynamically building a bean MyBean which needs another bean MyOtherBean to be injected in it: public class MyBean | { | | // Inject information will be dynamically added, including the bean name | // to be injected | @Inject | private MyOtherBean otherBean; | ... | } | The easy way to dynamically build this bean and add the injection attributes is this: | MyBean mybean = new MyBean(); | BeanMetaDataBuilder builder = BeanMetaDataBuilder.createBuilder("blah", mybean.getClass().getName()); | builder.setConstructorValue(mybean); | | // create the inject attributes | ValueMetaData inject = builder.createInject("beanNameOftheDependency", null, null, ControllerState.DESCRIBED); | builder.addPropertyMetaData("otherBean", inject); Works fine. However, the thing that i want to avoid is this line: builder.addPropertyMetaData("otherBean", inject) I was trying to avoid adding the inject/depends on a "field name" and instead was trying to see if i could create the metadata based on the "type" to inject. Something like: builder.addPropertyMetadata(MyOtherBean.class.getName(),inject); The MC would then look for a field of type MyOtherBean and create the injection on MyBean. So if tomorrow, someone dislikes the field name and changes it to: public class MyBean | { | | // Inject information will be dynamically added, including the bean name | // to be injected | @Inject | private MyOtherBean iDontLikeTheEarlierName; | ... | } then i could still have this entire thing working. Maybe MC already has something to achieve this and i am not finding the correct API? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212615#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...