I note you've still not fixed some of the public methods you introduced on the AbstractKernelController that I complained about before. They need fixing otherwise somebody can break the entire state machine with injudicious (or malign) invocations on those methods. This is basic OO principles. All public methods should keep the invariant state of the underlying Object, there should be no backdoors. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4071197#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...