I have updated the testcase to use the ServiceController to create/start/stop/destroy a service (and look into its ServiceContext to give me the state of the service at any time). The test in question is: | ant -Dtest=org.jboss.test.security.test.DynamicLoginConfigServiceUnitTestCase one-test Currently I see three issues: a) I am unable to set an attribute on a service that has been created but failed to start (in FAILED state). b) I cannot destroy a service that is in FAILED state but has been created. b) Against a running JBoss instance, if you run the same test a second time, you will see issues because the previous run did not destroy the service. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3967079#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...