Jim Ma [http://community.jboss.org/people/jim.ma] replied to the discussion "Web Service annotated with @PostConstruct - wrong order w.r.t Listener" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/550294#550294 -------------------------------------------------------------- I suspect this is because the eager initialization metro web service in deployment : the  metro web service will be initialized and started before servlet.init().  The jbossws-cxf stack before 3.3.0.GA version supports lazy load. If the jbossws-cxf stack can be your option , you can switch to jbossws-cxf-3.2.2.GA to see if it works for your case. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/550294#550294] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]