I have updated the lifecycle stuff to use the more specific lifecycle KernelControllerContextAware interfaces. As part of this I have changed the <aop:lifcycle> xml to | <aop:lifecycle-configure/> | <aop:lifecycle-create/> | <aop:lifecycle-describe/> | <aop:lifecycle-install/> | <aop:lifecycle-instantiate/> | <aop:lifecycle-start/> | This will need updating in A/S trunk when the microcontainer snapshot is updated (affected modules are aop-mc-int and kernel). I modified kernel to not invoke the ConfigureKernelControllerContextAware twice, by checking that if the interface is EXACTLY KernelControllerContextAware, it will invoke that as part of the ConfigureAction. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4002348#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...