David Ward [http://community.jboss.org/people/dward] replied to the discussion "SOAPProxy initialization and deployment ordering" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/541634#541634 -------------------------------------------------------------- I actually agree with the "hanging is bad" point.  In fact, there is a jira on this, which - per your tone you might find surprising - I am actually working on right now: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBESB-3172 https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBESB-3172 My belief is that it is not bad for the service to +*FAIL*+ with an Exception.  I do believe that it should not hang, however, thus the jira item above. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/541634#541634] Start a new discussion in JBoss ESB Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]