I'll need some more background on how the CTS test deployments differ from those in the EJB3 testsuite. "Metadata trunk, RemoteProcessor Line 71" wrote : if(remote.value() == null || remote.value().length == 0) | throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty @Remote on bean class " + type.getName() + " is not allowed"); ...seems to violate EJB3 4.6.6 Bullet 5.6; this doesn't make for an invalid annotation if one business interface is defined by the bean class. However, when I make the same case in EJB3 (Empty @Remote with one business interface implemented by the bean class), deployment succeeds; the above code is not even hit. Why does the CTS code run through the RemoteProcessor where the EJB3 testsuite does not? S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110362#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...