"obrien" wrote : | 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? | At the time I introduced this I though that would bloat inject too much. Thinking about it now, I think it could be made nicely. I'll check more in detail over the week and post about it here. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4206104#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...