Hi, I've tried this, and I must have got something wrong ... I have tried 2 ways (below) .... and either way my values are ignored. Option 1. [xmbean] .... [attribute access='read-write' getMethod='getId' setMethod='setId'] [description]MBean Attribute.[/description] [name]Id[/name] [type]java.lang.String[/type] myValueGoesHere [/attribute] ... [/xmbean] and ... Option 2. [xmbean] .... [attribute access='read-write' getMethod='getId' setMethod='setId'] [description]MBean Attribute.[/description] [name]Id[/name] [type]java.lang.String[/type] [descriptors] [default value="myValueGoesHere"/] [/descriptors] [/attribute] ... [/xmbean] (of course, using correct XML tags). Any idea what I got wrong? As I said, setting it outside the xmbean tag worked but then screws up the persistence. Thanks Chris View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3983868#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...