Yes, thanks Ales, the missing link seems to be the functionality in TestServiceControllerLifecycleCallback. I had assumed that declaring the annotation was sufficient, but it seems that nothing in the current AS trunk actually does anything with that annotation, or at least not at a sufficiently early stage in the lifecycle to be useful. The code in TestServiceControllerLifecycleCallback is generic, not specific to the TransactionManager service. IMO it should be present in the AS, but I don't see it. Do I need to include it in the TS side of the integration module? To my mind the functionality should really be provided via bootstrap-beans, so in the xml for the TransactionManager I can simply reference the ServiceLifecycle bean rather than having to declare it first. Or perhaps one of the existing beans already has this functionality? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116405#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...