Thanks for pointing out EJBTHREE-655. "wolfc" wrote : What is easily possible is a MC view on an EJB. This should not require any new container and should be applicable to both SLSB and Service/Singleton. This was actually my last thought before bed last night. :) "wolfc" wrote : As for the actual life cycle callbacks, these are @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy. | Although create, start, stop and destroy will probably also be called by MC (in about the same way we now call the @Management interface). @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are different; that's per bean instance. I'm looking to get Annotations for "create/start/stop/destroy" at the Container level, much like MC has for POJOs. We already have these within the container itself; I want to also provide a hook for a bean provider to specify methods as callbacks to be invoked along the Container lifecycle, not the instance lifecycle. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4154057#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...