Yeah, that looks wrong. As why should item's whenRequired have anything to do with dependency's state. I think it should be | ControllerState requiredState = item.getDependentState(); | if (actualState == null || states.isBeforeState(actualState, requiredState)) | But this breaks a few tests, hence I need to check if I'm really thinking straight. :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4242914#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...