Hi, I am trying to make a service mbean depend on a singleton stateless session bean by configuring in *jboss-service.xml *using *<depends> *in *wildfly AS 8 *but getting the below error: *ERROR [org.jboss.as.controller.management-operation] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS014613: Operation ("deploy") failed - address: ([("deployment" => "TestEAR.ear")]) - failure description: {"JBAS014771: Services with missing/unavailable dependencies" => ["jboss.mbean.service.TestService.start is missing [jboss.mbean.service.\"jboss.j2ee:ear=TestEAR.ear,jar=module-A.jar,name=TestConfig,service=EJB3\".start]","jboss.mbean.service.TestService.create is missing [jboss.mbean.service.\"jboss.j2ee:ear=TestEAR.ear,jar=module-A.jar,name=TestConfig,service=EJB3\".create]"* Please find below the details on the code employed: Please help me to resolve the error. Many thanks. *project structure* TestEAR (ear) --- module-A (ejb jar containing singleton stateless session bean) --- module-B (jar containing service mbean) --- meta-inf/jboss-service.xml *singleton stateless session bean (under module-A JAR)* @Local(TestLocal.class) @Resource(name="TestConfig", mappedName="java:/ConnectionFactory") public class TestConfig { ... code ... } *jboss-service.xml (under meta-inf folder in TestEAR.ear)* <server> <mbean code="com.test.TestService" name="TestService"> <depends>jboss.j2ee:ear=TestEAR.ear,jar=module-A.jar,name=TestConfig,service=EJB3</depends> </mbean> *TestService.java (MBean) (under module-B JAR)* public class TestService extends ServiceMBeanSupport implements TestMBean { protected void startService() throws Exception { ...code... } protected void stopService() throws Exception { ...code... } protected void createService() throws Exception { ...code... } protected void destroyService() throws Exception { ...code... } } *TestMBean.java (MBean interface) (under module-B JAR)* public interface TestMBean extends org.jboss.system.ServiceMBean { } Thanks. Sridhar Thiyagarajan