The first problem is because the POJO names are the same as the JMX names. With the new ServiceController implementation, the JMX objects are real contexts in the MC that you can depend upon. i.e. they go through the ServiceController lifecycle. I don't understand the second test. It says jboss.aop:name=BeanWithDependency should not have been found? The only difference between the old and the new JMX lifecycle is the service controller lifecycle is now invoked for the MBean. But this test is NOT looking at the lifecycle it is just looking for the registered MBean, there has been no change to this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4087218#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...