"jhalliday" wrote : ... but it seems that nothing in the current AS trunk actually does anything with that annotation, or at least not at a sufficiently early stage in the lifecycle to be useful. | | IMO it should be present in the AS, but I don't see it. What about this? ;-) server\all\deployers\jboss-aop-jboss5.deployer\META-INF\jboss-aspect-library-beans.xml(16): class="org.jboss.system.microcontainer.jmx.ServiceControllerLifecycleCallback" server\default\deployers\jboss-aop-jboss5.deployer\META-INF\jboss-aspect-library-beans.xml(16): class="org.jboss.system.microcontainer.jmx.ServiceControllerLifecycleCallback" "jhalliday" wrote : | To my mind the functionality should really be provided via bootstrap-beans, so in the xml for the TransactionManager I can simply reference the ServiceLifecycle bean rather than having to declare it first. Or perhaps one of the existing beans already has this functionality? Read Adrian's comment once again. ;-) The problem is really when AOP kicks in. Too late for bootstrap beans. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116501#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...