One thing that is a bit tedious to write is a testcase that tries to validate expected states/properties of the beans in a kernel. This is especially true if the values are set asynchronously via concurrent tasks. A couple ways to better support this would be: - a conditional value dependency on a bean property. The bean wanting to validate the property would express a dependency with a type of java.util.concurrent.locks.Condition. - an ability to wrap a bean in an kernel event emitter proxy that generated kernel events to a named channel for every time the kernel touched the bean. Just a couple of ideas that I'll come back to once I get pas the current jboss5 bootstrap work. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958218#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...