Our OSGi bundle should just be a facade on top of the Deployment. You should be able to retrieve a bundle facade even for non OSGi deployments as well. i.e. to a piece of OSGi code a JavaEE ear deployment should look like a Bundle. Each deployment has its own lifecycle states controlled by the DeploymentControllerContext. So the mapping should look something like (pseudo code): Bundle.start() -> DeploymentControllerContext.changeState(DeploymentStages.REAL); Bundle.stop() -> DeploymentControllerContext.changeState(???); I'm not sure what state stop() should move to. It will either be POST_CLASSLOADER or DESCRIBE depending on whether Bundle.stop() should destroy the classloader. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4130073#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...