When mapping Controller states to bundle states, you should consider DeploymentStages, since those are probably the one's we're after. Those mentioned before are POJO centric. I would do something like this: ERROR --> UNINSTALLED NOT_INSTALLED --> INSTALLED (this one looks funny, but it's technically ok :-) CLASSLOADING --> RESOLVED REAL --> STARTING / STOPPING INSTALLED --> ACTIVE View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131924#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...