It's a vendor-based JMXBean--turns out, it doesn't implement the JBOSS-specific interfaces to support dependency management. Either I need a JBOSS-specific implementation, or may be remedied with EJB3.1 / @DependsOn as a vendor-neutral standard, although I don't have enough familiarity to know if most app servers support exposing EJB's as JMXBeans. Thanks, Howard View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247343#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...