I should have discussed this before opening JIRA, since the use case isn't clear, but... Exposure in JMX makes sense, since we expose the lifecycle operations, i.e. you stop the cache and your colleague comes and bugs you, it's nice to be able to see the state it's in when you get back to work. I *believe* (pretty sure actually) in AS 5 the MC will uninstall a bean if it fails in deployment, and this will include deregistering from JMX. So, the AS 4.x use case of being able to see the status of a failed deployment in the JMX console probably doesn't apply. Are there situations where the cache lifecycle can change internally? For example, as a result of the channel being shunned and auto-closing? Right now we don't handle that, but if we did, is it possible it would trigger a lifecycle transition? - Brian jbosscache-dev-bounces(a)lists.jboss.org wrote: