Discussion of http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5578 Kind of an odd issue as it relates to doing something strange -- deploying a ServiceMBeanSupport subclass via a beans.xml, and then annotating it as @JMX. The create/start/stop/destroyService methods don't get invoked. This comes up because I tend to try to deploy things as MC beans, but for backwards compatibility reasons things like HASingletonController are still ServiceMBeanSupport subclasses. So I hit weird issues. I can work around them, so not critical. But want to bring it up in case it suggests some more fundamental problem. Anyway, here's what I think is going on: I think this has to do with ServiceControllerLifecycleCallback. The @JMX annotation means this class handles starting the service. Leads to this: ServiceControllerLifecycleCallback.install --> ServiceController.start(ObjectName) --> ServiceController.doChange(controller, context, ControllerState.INSTALLED, "start") does some stuff... and then calls into ServiceMBeanSupport.start() which has this: | if (serviceName != null && isJBossInternalLifecycleExposed) | server.invoke(ServiceController.OBJECT_NAME, "start", new Object[] { serviceName }, SERVICE_CONTROLLER_SIG); | else | jbossInternalStart(); | The first branch of the if test is taken and that calls ServiceController.start(ObjectName) again (i.e. a recursive call). That call hits this and returns: | // If we are already started (can happen in dependencies) just return | if (ctx.state == ServiceContext.RUNNING || ctx.state == ServiceContext.FAILED) | { | log.debug("Ignoring start request for service: " + ctx.objectName + " at state " + ctx.getStateString()); | return; | } | Effect of all this is the startService() method never gets invoked. One possible solution to this is to add a way to configure the bean (a setter) such that isJBossInternalLifecycleExposed returns false. Avoid the recursive call. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4155445#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...