Just a small update to this: It seems I was incorrect in assuming that this was working correctly during a hot deploy. It doesn't matter whether it's a hot or cold deploy, if my dependencies are not deployed, the custom service that depends on them still deploys as long as it extends another object. The second I remove the inheritance, it obeys dependencies again. So, the following code obeys the dependencies: | public class MyService | implements MyServiceMBean | { | | } | However, this does not: | public class MyService | extends SuperService | implements MyServiceMBean | { | | } | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3981463#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...