The AnnotationMetaDataDeployer was assuming metadata complete unless there was a jboss metadata that was not marked as complete. Because there was no jboss.xml/ejb-jar.xml the ejb3 test is not being processed. | [starksm@succubus ejb3]$ jar -tf output/test-lib/ejbthree1146.jar | org/jboss/ejb3/test/ejbthree1146/TestBean.class | org/jboss/ejb3/test/ejbthree1146/TestBeanBase.class | org/jboss/ejb3/test/ejbthree1146/TestRemoteBusinessInterface.class | I added a metaDataCompleteIsDefault property to the AnnotationMetaDataDeployer so that you can set that to false to have a deployment without a JBossMetaData instance to be processed. | <bean name="AnnotationMetaDataDeployer" | class="org.jboss.deployment.AnnotationMetaDataDeployer"> | <property name="metaDataCompleteIsDefault">false</property> | </bean> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4110428#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...