Ok I followed the steps mentioned in this FAQ http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/WhydontmyAS42xServicebeansdeployinAS5 my service had @EJB for ejb dependency injection, after removing that I can see start method of my service is invoked but still it is stuck in PreInstall status, this is the message in log Deployment "WebServer" is missing the following dependencies: | Dependency "smc.jboss:service=KeyStoreService" (should be in state "Create", but is actually in state "PreInstall") View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4232361#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...