Section 11.6 says > If a bean registered with a child activity has the bean type and all > bindings of some injection point of some bean registered > with a direct or indirect parent activity, a DeploymentException is throw > by the container at deployment time. but nothing else talks about deployment time in that section. Maybe this should be "when addBean() is called"... -- Pete Muir http://www.seamframework.org http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Pete