SLSBs are created only as needed - JBoss AS does not start a pool of them during intialization. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250731#4250731 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4250731