Using a demand with state Configured on HAPartition as Ales suggested does resolve the issue: | ... | <!-- Handler for the replicated tree --> | <property name="distributedTreeManager"> | <bean class="org.jboss.ha.jndi.impl.jbc.JBossCacheDistributedTreeManager"> | <property name="clusteredCache"><inject bean="HAPartitionCacheHandle | r" property="cache"/></property> | <demand state="Configured">HAPartition</demand> | </bean> | </property> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4182120#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...