"alesj" wrote : Your are probably looking for this: | - http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=133207 | It even has the same subject name. :-) Well, the error message I'm getting is completely different, and I'm working with a programmatic deployment rather than an XML deployment, so it looks like a completely different problem to me... [quite="alesj"]I need to check why the programmatic approach doesn't work. Can you create me a test case out of your work? Or check AbstractBeanMetaData.getBeans / NestedBeanHandler, that's where the nested bean logic is. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4154343#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...