For the dependsOnMe is being maintained properly. Again, this probably doesn't matter, since it is only used when you remove a context. See ControllerContext.uninstall() IIRC the reason I don't maintain it is because the only place to do so could be too early. i.e. in the DependencyItem.resolve() implementations. If we removed it at that point, we have only just determined that the dependency is no longer resolved, the controller hasn't had chance to act on that information yet and so the uninstall() may not work correctly? It is certainly something that we should look at tidying up. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4016353#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...