Where is this "fix", in AbstractController? Even if some context depends on itself, you shouldn't simply ignore it - in general state machine view. It should be simply reported as unresolved dependency as before, no special treatment required. I guess with classloading it could be different. But then it should be dealt in the classloading sub-project, not at the abstract state machine level. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251461#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...