Would that be packaged in a JAR for JBoss to pick it up? My current test (which does not get activated) is a JAR with one class and one interface (the interface defines the start/stop methods) as follows: public class MyServiceImpl implements MyService { | private Logger logger; | | public void start() { | logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MyServiceImpl.class); | logger.info("has been started"); | } | | public void stop() { | logger.info("has been shut down"); | logger = null; | } | } It contains a META-INF/my-service-beans.xml as follows: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0"> | <bean name="MyService" class="test.MyServiceImpl" /> | </deployment> I drop it into the deploy folder (archived, not exploded) but nothing happens. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4259343#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...