Yes, I follow (but don't necessarily agree with) the argument that the TransactionManager should be in deploy, but given that we can't put it there in the short term we need an alternative solution. Can the ServiceControllerLifecycleCallback stuff be moved such that it is available for use in the jboss-service.xml? To my mind it belongs not in the AOP deployer but in the bootstrap or early in the jboss-service.xml, so that services can make use of it. Otherwise as far as I can tell the TransactionManager is going to have to have its own duplicate of the same functionality, which seems less than elegant. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4116511#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...