Hi, I know that with services you can have dependencies (using the tag) so that the service won't fully deploy until all its mbean dependencies are ready. Is is possible to make an EAR dependent on an mbean. For example if a lib in the EAR was dependent on a Jboss cache instance, can you specify this using a depends tag and if so in which file ? regards and thanks Noel View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4202740#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...