I got your point about SPI/implementation. anonymous wrote : How would you do it? | Because injection, as you said, is already doing a search - but only up the hierarchy - wouldn't be more coherent to provide this as another search strategy? Something like | <inject bean="something" search="leaves"/> | | or | | <inject bean="something"><search type="leaves"/></inject> | Unfortunately when I tried to find the best way where to 'plug' it, I got lost somewhere around FromContext as called within AbstractInjectionValueMetaData.getValue. Guess I need to understand full notion of this first. --- Wish I had more time to dig into JBossMC code. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4206102#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...