I have the following contents in the MBean deployment descriptor | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <server> | <mbean code="org.jboss.test.jca.mbean.RaDependsOnMe" | name="jboss.test:test=RaDependsOnMeMBean"> | <depends>jboss.test:name=test</depends> | </mbean> | </server> The jboss.test:name=test is not present so I would expect that the RaDependsOnMe not to get registered/available for usage But to my surprise I see the MBean jboss.test:test=RaDependsOnMeMBean available from the jmx-console and I am able to call the sayHello() operation from the jmx-console . I tried this on Jboss5 , Jboss4.2 and Jboss4.0.5 . This looks to me as the bug . View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168997#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...