Zemian Deng [http://community.jboss.org/people/saltnlight5] replied to the discussion "How can I disable bean lifecycles per entire descriptor?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/536897#536897 -------------------------------------------------------------- Ales, Thanks for the providing the project link as ref. I think I understand what you're saying about using the BeanMetaDataFactory for grouping of beans method. I tried look into the jboss-threads-metadata, but I didn't see a sample  of descriptor using the ThreadsMetaData yet. So I am still not clear as how would you apply the ignore rule to the entire group of beans. Would I need to programmatically disable this inside the BeanMetaDataFactory instance's implementation (like in ThreadsMetatData.java), or simply adding the <create method="create" ignore="true"> under the <my-group xmlns="urn:foo:bar:1.0"> in descriptor XML file would work? Thanks, /Z -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/536897#536897] Start a new discussion in JBoss Microcontainer at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]