Folks, here is an update on AS7-2777 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2777> I added deployment operations start/stop and the ability in the DeploymentPlanBuilder to say andDeploy().andNoStart() Following the INSTALL phase there is a new ACTIVATE phase. When the 'deploy' operation is marked with StartPolicy.DEFERRED the DeploymentPhaseService for ACTIVATE is created with initial Mode.NEVER, which causes no execution of DUPs in ACTIVATE and beyond. The 'start' operation, triggers continuation of DUP execution by setting the DeploymentPhaseService for ACTIVATE to Mode.ACTIVE. The 'stop' operation sets the DeploymentPhaseService for ACTIVATE to Mode.NEVER In this way start/stop can be called repeatedly Test coverage in [tdiesler@tdvaio smoke]$ mvn -Dtest=StandaloneDeploymentTestCase install Running org.jboss.as.test.smoke.osgi.StandaloneDeploymentTestCase Tests run: 12, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 3, Time elapsed: 20.721 sec https://github.com/tdiesler/jboss-as/tree/as2777 cheers -thomas -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thomas Diesler JBoss OSGi Lead JBoss, a division of Red Hat xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx