Actually in JBoss AS, all the portal services remain JMX mbeans. For other version we will probably use the microcontainer annotations for creating management services. Perhaps also we are going to make more the difference between internal services and management interface exposed. An example of that is in Portlet 2, the different between: - PortletContainer : the portlet container interface as seen by the framework - PortletContainerObject extends PortletContainer : the interface that portlet container implementation must provide - ManagedPortletContainer : the interface exposed for management View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4132681#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...