That's the same question that Ales has. :-) In practice, only AbstractControllerContext defines a per state callback. MC -> AbstractControllerContext -> ControllerContextAction The default implementation is to callback on the ControllerContext, i.e. the last step is necessarily going to happen if the context implementation does not extend AbstractControllerContext. I'm arguing that the lifecycle callbacks should apply to at least all AbstractControllerContext implementations, not just POJO. Ales thinks that ControllerContextAction should be part of the API so it would apply everywhere? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4032058#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...