Wait, are you trying to use the implicit getters in ColdFusion? I assumed you actually had a method defined in your CFC called getutilities() which is why I kept asking to see it. Do you have accessors=“true” set on your component?
Does initArg(name=“utilities”,dsl=“coldbox:plugin:utilities”) not do what it implies it does?
If not, I’ve tried injecting the plugin with the binder’s initWith(), property(), and setter() using getColdbox().getPlugin(“utilities”). The result is that the plugin cannot be found.