Thanks for the in detail reply. I was able to understand that there is no specific need for me to deploy the MD beans in only one node in a cluster. So I have modified my jboss-service file to deploy the MDB's in all my nodes at startup itself.
Though this solved the major problem I was facing. Now I run into a situation where I get "Initial state transfer failed" exception. >From below link I understood that I must tune my InitialStateRetrievalTimeout >parameter. http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossCacheTroubleshooting But where to find that parameter? | 2007-10-08 18:54:51,493 WARN [org.jboss.system.ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss:service=DefaultPartition | java.lang.IllegalStateException: Initial state transfer failed: Channel.getState() returned false | at org.jboss.ha.framework.server.HAPartitionImpl.fetchState(HAPartitionImpl.java:351) | at org.jboss.ha.framework.server.HAPartitionImpl.startPartition(HAPartitionImpl.java:280) | at org.jboss.ha.framework.server.ClusterPartition.startService(ClusterPartition.java:341) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor12.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController$ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceController.java:978) | at $Proxy0.start(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceController.start(ServiceController.java:417) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:86) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy4.start(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.start(SARDeployer.java:302) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.start(MainDeployer.java:1025) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:819) | at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:782) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:155) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:94) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:133) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:142) | at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:88) | at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:264) | at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:659) | at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:210) | at $Proxy8.deploy(Unknown Source) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.deploy(URLDeploymentScanner.java:421) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner.scan(URLDeploymentScanner.java:634) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner$ScannerThread.doScan(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:263) | at org.jboss.deployment.scanner.AbstractDeploymentScanner.startService(AbstractDeploymentScanner.java:336) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalStart(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:289) | at org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport.jbossInternalLifecycle(ServiceMBeanSupport.java:245) | at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source) | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) | | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4092603#4092603 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4092603 _______________________________________________ jboss-user mailing list jboss-user@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-user