It seems that we are missing one use case of annotation processing. e.g. if you specify a stateful bean in the ejb-jar.xml and have a bean without a top-level annotation like: | public class RemoveBean | { | @Remove | public void remove() | { | } | } | As it is now the Stateful annotation processor requires a top-level @Stateful annotation to be able to create the metadata. Therefore the annotation deployer only looks for those top-level annotations - which makes sense, as this annotation is required to create the correct metaData with ejbName and ejbClass. To work around this problem we would need to skip this top-level processing and create the metaData based on the xml metaData. So in more detail what needs to be added to the JBoss50Creator is something like: | public JBoss50MetaData create(Collection<Class<?>> classes) | { | // Create meta data | JBoss50MetaData metaData = create(); | | for(EnterpriseBeanMetaData bean : ejbJarMetaData.getEnterpriseBeans()) | { | Class<?> ejbClass = classLoader.loadClass(bean.getEjbClass()); | if(! classes.contains(ejbClass)) | { | if(bean.isSession()) | { | SessionBeanMetaData sb = (SessionBeanMetaData) bean; | JBossSessionBeanMetaData sessionBean = new JBossSessionBeanMetaData(); | sessionBean.setEjbName(sb.getEjbName()); | sessionBean.setEjbClass(sb.getEjbClass()); | if(sb.isStateful()) | { | StatefulProcessor processor = new StatefulProcessor(finder); | sessionBean.setSessionType(SessionType.Stateful); | processor.process(sessionBean, ejbClass); | metaData.getEnterpriseBeans().add(sessionBean); | } | else | { | sessionBean.setSessionType(SessionType.Stateless); | // ... | } | } | else if(bean.isMessageDriven()) | { | // ... | } | } | } | | processMetaData(classes, metaData); | return metaData; | } | This (not compiled prototype) basically processes every class defined in the xml if not already picked up by the annotationDeployer. I think this should be handled differently in future, but i would consider that as last minute workaround :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4173076#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...