I think this should already be taken care by Spring. JBossSpringDeployer doesn't have anything to do with beans lifecycle, except from instantiating/destroying AppContext/BeanFactory. The only reason I could think of is that you're using SpringBeanFactoryDeployer which only creates BeanFactory instance, not ApplicationContext instance. AFAIK it's only AppContext impl that handles init/destroy, but I could be wrong. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4164400#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...