Re: resurrecting DeploymentPhase, that wouldn't help with my example case of a war in deploy-hasingleton/. The missing dependency in the example is deploy/jbossweb.sar (the web server) *not* deployers/jbossweb.deployer. (One of the things the war deployers do is establish a dependency on the web server.) So, the MC knows to wait to install the war beans until the webserver is available. But validating the "deploy-hasingleton" profile won't give the MC a chance to be patient. anonymous wrote : I did not really get what you meant with skipping the validation on a re-entrant activateProfile :-/ The reentrant call path looks like this: ProfileServiceBootstrap.start(Server) --> ProfileService.activateProfile("all") --> HASingletonDeployer bean starts, becomes master --> HASingletonProfileManager.activateProfile() --> ProfileService.activateProfile("deploy-hasingleton") One call to activateProfile() leads to another nested call. Below is an example of ignoring the validation in a re-entrant call. (This is based on doctoring AbstractProfileService rev 83388 before you change validate() to limit validation to a single context.) | private final ThreadLocal<Boolean> reentrantActivate = new ThreadLocal<Boolean>(); | | public void activateProfile(ProfileKey key) throws Exception | { | ... | | ProfileContext context = this.registeredProfiles.get(key); | if(context == null) | throw new NoSuchProfileException("No such profile: "+ key); | | Boolean reentrant = reentrantActivate.get(); | reentrantActivate.set(Boolean.TRUE); | try | { | try | { | log.info("Activating profile: " + context.getProfile()); | controller.change(context, ControllerState.INSTALLED); | } | catch(Throwable t) | { | throw new RuntimeException(t); | } | | // Check if the profile was activated successfully | if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(reentrant) == false) | { | validate(); | } | } | finally | { | reentrantActivate.set(reentrant); | } | } This validation thing is a pain in general; I vaguely recall some discussion with Scott about a similar issue a year or two back. Perhaps we should move away from automatically validating and instead make it part of the SPI? Let the caller decide when they want a validation check and what to validate? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4205054#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...