This came up from an email thread:

(1) By default, passivation events get called during replication cycle
(2) There is a config setting to disable this
(3) We should introduce JBoss-specific replication-only and passivation-only events that actually let you directly write/read the bytestream
(4) I will work to get two sets of events into the next EJB spec, ie. introduce @PreReplicate / @PostReplicate or something like that

We should now tie the replication to passivation events (there is no concrete spec but everyone else is doing it). But we should also have a flag to disable it if needs to.