i.e. why is it not just: public class Producers { @Produces @Drivers public Seat produceAtDriversSeat() { return driversSeat.newInstance().produce().inject().get(); } @Produces @BeanTypes(DriversSeat.class) public DriversSeat produceDriversSeat(@New DriversSeat driversSeat) { return driversSeat; } @Produces @Named("spare") @Spare public Tire produceAtNamedSpareTire(@New SpareTire spareTire) { return spareTire; } @Produces @BeanTypes(SpareTire.class) public SpareTire produceSpareTire(@New SpareTire spareTire) { return spareTire; } } On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Gavin King <gavin.king(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- Gavin King gavin.king(a)gmail.com http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin http://hibernate.org http://seamframework.org