Well, nope, it was not. This problem obviously stems from an apparent lack of understanding of the @Factory annotation. I looked at your examples and saw your factory methods not being accompanied by a property, but instead just returning the created lists. So I thought "well, that's cool, I don't need a property for this List". Alas, it did not work. Adding a "List companyTypes" property with an @Out annotation solved the problem. Anybody care to educate me in why your example code doesn't need to do so? /Kris View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993479#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...