Try bypassing the create/start/stop/destroy methods (which are meant to be invoked from within JBoss AS) and instead use createService/startService, etc. I haven't tried this, but per http://docs.jboss.org/nightly/microkernel/docs/gettingstarted/en/html/bas... this should be something like: | <bean name="jboss.cache:service=TestTreeCache" class="org.jboss.cache.TreeCache"> | <create method="createService"/> | <start method="startService"/> | <stop method="stopService"/> | <destroy method="destroyService"/> | </bean> | Good luck getting all the configurations injected; in JBC 1.x configuration isn't particularly microcontainer friendly. (That's much improved in JBC 2.0.0.) You're kind of breaking new ground here; I haven't head of anyone launching a cache from within the embeddable container. I'll try to help you out as I can. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3991535#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...