as i had to look for a while to find what gavin was referring to, i think it is the below thing : 'service beans'

http://docs.jboss.org/ejb3/app-server/tutorial/service/service.html

???any comment on service beans versus application scope session beans for holding configuration type of data???

feature request to gavin :)

to inject a ' service ' bean you have to resort to the standard jboss provisioning wich looks like

private GlobalConfigurationMBean globalConfiguration;

@Depends ("upr:service=globalConfiguration")
 public void setGlobalConfiguration(final GlobalConfigurationMBean globalConfiguration)
 {
 this.globalConfiguration = globalConfiguration;
 }