"jaikiran" wrote : | The reason why i would except the MC to skip this start is because if someone is annotating it to be an @InstallMethod, then he is treating that as a MC bean and hence no longer a legacy MBean :) Just more (useless) custom details. What about if someone actually really wanted to have start called twice, at start and install? ;-) @SkipThinkingThisIsPlainPOJOAndDoOldMBeanNotion :-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4212195#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...