Adding a bit more logging shows this output; | 365 TRACE [VFSStructuralDeployersImpl] Determining structure for ejbs.jar deployers=[org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.war.WARStruct | ure@1ea0252, org.jboss.test.deployers.vfs.structure.ear.support.MockEarStructureDeployer@1c695a6, org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure. | jar.JARStructure@3e89c3, org.jboss.deployers.vfs.plugins.structure.file.FileStructure@1a52fdf] | 366 TRACE [WARStructure] ... no - doesn't look like a war and no WEB-INF subdirectory. | 366 TRACE [WARStructure] Not recognised: ejbs.jar | 366 TRACE [JARStructure] ... ok - its an archive or at least pretending to be | 375 TRACE [JARStructure] ... candidate annotations returned false | 375 TRACE [JARStructure] Not recognised: ejbs.jar | 375 TRACE [FileStructure] ... no - not a file. | 375 TRACE [FileStructure] Not recognised: ejbs.jar | 376 TRACE [VFSStructuralDeployersImpl] ejbs.jar not recognised | So its not finding the annotations in JARStructure. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4211852#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...