"charles.crouch(a)jboss.com" wrote : | But we don't use this technique to configure/reconfigure the EJB Container itself do we? | No, I would expect EJB Container to be a bunch of MC beans, hence configurable via MC based ManagedObject. "charles.crouch(a)jboss.com" wrote : | I thought that would be analogous to what David is trying to do? | Perhaps I didn't give the best example + missing some details. :-) It was more about just using metadata and not making it into beans + not undeploying it. But there is nothing preventing you to annotate your custom metadata with ManagedObject annotations and then exposing them. I guess some more MO impl details are needed, e.g. InstanceClassFactory or ManagedObjectBuilder View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4191901#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...