Thank you for the reply. Setting the security-domain tag as suggested, puts all the beans in the same security domain rather than just SomeBean (i.e. on in particular bean). And just as an FYI, I did find out that placing a container configuration in the jboss.xml is supposed to allow the selection of a particular bean, when that bean refers to the configuration by name. But at least in my configuration of JBoss 4.0.4.GA, this also fails, because it still acts as though every bean is under the security domain as well. Finally, placing the container configuration in standardjboss.xml, and referencing it by name from the jboss.xml, does finally work...a bit of a rigmarole, but it works. Thanks again. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3999741#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...