So, does this mean, that this 'feature' will vanish or is 'unsupportred' ? That would be really a pitty, since using a customer instantiator for creating your delegation classes allows to perform some quite nice things. E.g. I use it to chain the ActionHandler to a Spring container so that it gets injected all service it declares (autowire by type). Or you can use it explicitely. You might want have a look at http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/MOD-297 how powerful this feature is. Well, at least I was lucky that time ;-) And I really thought, I've read this somewhere in the documentation ... Thanks very much for your response, this was my first post (out of ~5) to which I got some response at all. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073046#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...