With the lifecycle registration, I can see that xxxLifecycleCallback methods for my annotation xxx are being called. So currently I can proceed with my annotation. Kabir, regarding the @JMX annotation, maybe you want to change the lifecycle registration to aim at the JMXLifecycleCallback class rather than the call back methods from the system workspace. :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222825#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...