Hi, I am just thinking of something like <server ... objectName="jboss.foo:service=bar,name="%name%"> <service .. objectName="jboss.foo:service=bar,name=???,subService=x" /> </server> Meaning that I'd like to be able to tell my object name in the service to only find instances of jboss.foo:service=bar,subService=x where the name attribute has the same value as in the server's object name. And this especially in the view of the MBeanResourceDiscoveryComponent Do we have something like this? Would this be useful? Heiko -- Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 20, 85609 Dornach bei München Handelsregister: Amtsgericht München HRB 153243 Geschaeftsführer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera