Looks like EAR deployment ordering stuff done last summer for 4.0.5 is missing in trunk. This is resulting in the same types of test failures I had last year in http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3503. Seems like there are two problems: 1) The http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-2904 fix needs to be ported. In particular J2eeApplicationMetaData in trunk doesn not support the module-order config element. 2) By default, the old implicit ordering is no longer occuring (e.g. deploy a -ds.xml before an ejb jar). There was some discussion last year in http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=78376 of not having the implicit behavior be default in 5.0, so this might not be necessary. If this isn't something where there's a plan to completely redo how this works, I'll open a JIRA for the above. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059780#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...