Consider this case: 1) You have a MC bean (named Bean1). 2) Bean1 during its START phase (through the start() operation) wants to "install" another MC bean lets say Bean2 (which is of a completely different "type"). So Bean1 has this piece of code in its start public void start() { // install Bean2 getKernel().getController().install(bean2.getBeanMetadata(),bean2Instance); } 3) Now the important part - let's consider that the KernelController for this Kernel already has a bunch of contexts which are ready to go to START phase. So let's consider the controller has this bunch of contexts ready to got to START state - {Bean3, Bean4, Bean5} Questions: 1) Is this API that is being used in the Bean1.start() the correct way to install a bean? I guess yes, because i could not find any other API which does a similar thing :) 2) What is the best way to install a bean without affecting the state of other *unrelated beans*. In this example, Bean2 and Bean3 are unrelated, still installing Bean2 is causing a state change in Bean3. How do i avoid this? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4219822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...