"bill.burke(a)jboss.com" wrote : The kernel registry plugin just provides a bridge from kernel registry to jndi registry. What if JNDI isn't populated yet? There's no way resolve the dependency afterwards. It will ask to resolve it again the next time you deploy something to the controller. More importantly, you don't know when the jndi binding disappears without the naming events! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4082111#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...