I found the source of this problem - jboss.xml was botched with the message-driven sections defined in the wrong scope. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037330#4037330 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4037330