You were right. I put the ejb-jar.xml in my jar archive and there is no need for the @Interceptor annotation any more in my ejb class View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964358#3964358 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3964358