"wolfc" wrote : I still don't see the need for any registries. We got enough of those lying around (kernel registry and JNDI itself). Likewise start and stop semantics are then handled by MC. Both MC and JNDI are specific to the current JVM; abstracting the Registry allows for resources to be defined by key locally only, and maintained elsewhere. This allows us to provide custom load-balancing by distributing EJB lookups, proxy creation, and invocation among different physical machines or clusters. The Registry itself is an MC Bean; one objective of this component is to leverage MC wherever possible. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150484#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...