The vendor specific JMX Bean doesn't implement or extend org.jboss.system.Service or implement any of the necessary lifecycle methods (per the vendor). Using the ObjectName as indicated below in the @Depends did not work. From the JBOSS documentation, it seems that there are some minimal requirements for MBeans to support the dependency framework. Is that not the case? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247673#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...