"estebanschifman" wrote : There's the old hearbeat trick. Processes could be required to send a periodic heartbeat that would change the 'time to live' for that particular registry entry. A garbage cleaner could purge stale entries | Yeah, I've just been asking Kurt about the possibility of this. The Reg client could just filter these out and something else could periodically remove them as you say Es. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3991355#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...