A war file contained in the EAR has a dependency on a jboss cache instance which it retrieves through JMX. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4202847#4202847 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4202847