I've committed what I have done so far to mc trunk. The relevant tests in the aop-mc-int project are: InitialLifecycleCallbackTestCase InitialLifecycleCallbackWithDependencyTestCase NonDefaultMethodsLifecycleCallbackTestCase CreateBeansLifecycleCallbackTestCase CreatedBeansLifecycleWithDependencyTestCase LifecycleTestCase MultipleLifecycleTestCase JMXLifecycleTestCase JndiLifecycleTestCase Adrian, I'm not getting your comment? The lifecycle callbacks no longer use KernelControllerContextAware. KernelControllerContextAction invokes the callback methods that should be run on the bean that is the "callback handler". It passes in the current KernelControllerContext into the callback method. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4025808#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...