I personally would much prefer the EntityHome approach to annotating entities. I the aim is to not have to write entityHome.instance.property, then just add a factory to components.xml <factory name="entityName" value="#{entityHome.instance}" /> Why? I think the lifecycle is much clearer like this, you get EntityHome (which is very nice), and you are cluster safe. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4121041#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...