"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Well, the error message I'm getting is completely different, and I'm working with a programmatic deployment rather than an XML deployment, so it looks like a completely different problem to me... | What's your error? "david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | ...OK, it seems entirely possible that I'm just doing it wrong. I'm instantiating a BeanMetaDataBuilder for the nested bean, using the getBeanMetaData() to get it, and then just directly adding that resulting bean to a parent builder via the builder.addPropertyMetaData("prop", nestedBeanMetaData) method. | That should work. XML transformation doesn't do anything different than what you do programmatically. And that's exactly what I'm doing in my test: - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/microcontainer/trunk/kern... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4154553#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...