And don't understand what exactly you mean. :-) Install it where? Once MC-Kernel is shutdown, all beans are uninstalled == reverted lifecycle invocation. What you do during install/uninstall is up to you. Perhaps ProfileService with its serialization could help you here, saving some contextual state. e.g. don't do X since you already did it in previous run View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4188511#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...