"alesj" wrote : We have more fine grained states than the usual lifecycles. ;-) | And what you call stop and destroy are respectively start and create on the way 'back', at uninstall. Yeah, I figured out that much. So the lifecycle methods described in http://tinyurl.com/2qlxsq (13.3 of the user manual) represent transitions between three states in each direction. Which of the 8 controller states does each of the three states correspond to? Or are they completely independent and unrelated (and thus am I just confusing myself)? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131578#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...