"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : Unless access-mode="FIELDS" implicitly grabs the class instead? Grabs class how? We don't have any special static handling (via xml or BMDB). OO != static. ;-) And I don't see why we should have any special treatment, the example I provided you is not a huge penalty. But you can do all this static mojo via BeanInfo. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4193752#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...