I'm just copy/pasting code out of the wiki example. But yeah, the inner class is a component, as evidenced by the @Name annotation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4093836#4093836 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4093836