Adrian, I appreciate your response, though I think "hacky" was a bit strong... :) I merely thought that a jndi-name attribute could serve as a shorthand for the JNDIBinding annotation that you mentioned. It is very similar to the <attribute name="JNDIName"...> element that one can nest under MBean tags. Is that considered "hacky" as well? Having a shorthand or "easier" way of doing configuration is not unprecedented in JBoss. For example, people used to have to write mbean *-service.xml files to set up datasources in AS. Now they just have to write a *-ds.xml file, which is a simpler syntax, although under the hood it just gets trasnformed. (Or at least that's how it used to be implemented...) Last, your repsponse addressed putting the POJO in JNDI. I didn't see what the recommended approach is to expose the POJO as a JMX MBean. Is there an <annotation ..> for that is well? Thank you. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3991656#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...