The dependencies/relationships between the components needs to be setup such that inService is not reached until the deployment policy configs are known. You have to realize that you are setting up metadata/relationships before any objects are created. All deployments are processed for each deployer so once your past a given phase of deployment, all required info exists for the next phase. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3993125#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...