No, it's not possible to load beans after a restart; ejb3 clears out everything when the bean deploys. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4191796#4191796 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4191796