"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : You need a 'lifecycle-xxx' element as well, 'xxx' being the state you want to handle. e.g. http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/server/src/etc/conf/default/... There is the magic. Let me try that. :) Maybe this needs to be documented some place. Once I get my annotation working, I will write a wiki entry for folks who have an itch to write a mc annotation. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222808#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...