I was wondering the same thing, but I think you can define them as components in components.xml, which would avoid the need for the @Name annotation. Not sure about the exact syntax... However, for the more general case, it would be nice for example to add Hibernate validator annotations independently to existing EJB3 beans as well. Not sure whether this can be achieved, maybe by subclassing and overriding while adding the annotations? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4036679#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...