how to disable jboss mbean start at deployment time

[yangju]

I have written wrappers around some of our backend processors as mbeans. These mbeans extend jboss ServiceMBeanSupport. Therefore they inherit the start() and stop().
However, at deployment time, I don't want these mbeans to start. The users will control the start/stop of these mbeans through jmx-console.
If I do not extend ServiceMBeanSupport, and do not have start() stop() method names, then it will be OK. But I like ServiceMBeanSupport as it does a lot of state management for my mbean.

Is there any other way? Such as inside jboss-service.xml?

Thanks.

[dimitris]

Unfortunately we don't have that, ie. a way to declare in you -service.xml descriptor that you don't want your mbean to be started upon deployment. (maybe we should consider adding it).

The ServiceControler will call create() & start() if he sees those methods exposed by your MBean.

You'd have to provide your own set of lifecycle methods to do that with different names.