Re: the lifecycle, see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=103608 for possibly relevant discussion. You don't want to invoke preRegister(). That's the responsibility of the JMX server. Re: maintaining a map of names, will this or something along these lines avoid that need? | if (registerCache) | { | ObjectName tmpObj = new ObjectName(tmpName); | if (!server.isRegistered(tmpObj)) | server.registerMBean(cache, tmpObj); | | // ADDED: Use whatever name the cache is registered under as the | // base for the interceptor names | tmpName = cache.getServiceName().getCanonicalName(); | } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4038531#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...