1.) Please clearly define behavior of @Startup and the call to @Create for an application scoped component in a cluster. 2.) Aware of other mechanisms, but yet wondering ... Is there, will there be a simple way to have an application scoped component have the same state across a clustered JBoss? Ideally without expensive "read from database" on each getter method call? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4061437#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...