running jboss as 4.2.3-GA i have a .sar which contains an mbean, its interface, and the appropriate jboss-service.xml file. if i configure a scheduler in the jboss-service.xml file, it fires up correctly and everything is happy. if i remove the scheduling mbean block, and try to configure a scheduler mbean outside the .sar file (similar to the scheduler-service.xml file), that i have named as export-scheduler.xml, it does not work. basically i get "is waiting for an appropriate deployer" Exception when i deploy the mbean xml file. is there some extra configuration or missing tag i need to have an "external" mbean talk to the mbean deployed in my .sar? the basic goal i have is to externalize configuration so that i can tune the frequency of the scheduler without having to redeploy a new .sar each time. i just want to twiddle the .xml file and have it redeploy with the new values. TIA == stanton View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184598#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...