The same type of deployment summary info has to be passed into the metadata layer, and both the metadata and deployment summary would be passed to the jndi policy. The deployment layer has to create the summary view, so that will contain both the parent deployment base name (an ear or standalone jar) and the ejb deployment simple name. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4146582#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...