The deployment layer is completely rewritten in jboss5. The old MainDeployer is being replaced with the kernel VDF based version that is an implementation of org.jboss.deployers.spi.deployment.MainDeployer. The VDF is described here: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBoss5DeploymentFramework We need a testcase in the jboss5 testsuite that illustrates what the console is looking for so it can be mapped to the new implementation. Also, services to not have to be jboss mbean services, so they may not be exposing a jmx interface at this point. We are working on beans express their management interface for the next beta. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3987929#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...