Hi I've solved this problem. It was my url which was null not the deployer as my jboss-beans.xml was not on my classpath. Thanks Alan View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4201066#4201066 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4201066