"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | The difference being that the install/uninstall just "does it" based | on what the BeanMetaData tells it, it doesn't make any policy decisions. Since the parent kernels are going to have to know about the child kernels anyway, see http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=101320 I don't see a problem with them creating the child kernel when they see that one is necessary. This also has the advantage that if you do inside the parent controller's "write lock" you avoid the race condition mentioned above. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4015034#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...