Hello struts-dev, This night I commit to the struts contributions repository ServiceManager - support of pluggable extensions in struts. Package already contains one service - FactoryService. It based on my early struts extension - BeanFactory, and contains its code and two factories to support automatic bean creation. ServiceManager uses single struts-config.xml file to read configuration information and lets to services add its own rules to the digester to support additional config sections in struts-config.xml. Another words - ServiceManager uses 'live' Digester! Such trick allow to store all needed config info for all services in application in one file - struts-config.xml. P.S. I work under comments now and I believe that samples will be ready shortly. -- Best regards, Oleg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]