Sorry I only just saw this. JBC no longer depends on jboss-javaee. It just needed JTA interfaces from jboss-javaee and now depends on the jta artifact in the javax.transaction group (since 2.2.0.CR1). I believe Brian is updating AS 5 clustering code to depend on 2.2.0.CR6, the target JBC release for AS 5 being 2.2.0.GA. I know circular dependency isn't the only issue detailed above, but as an FYI, that part of it is taken care of if you use a 2.2.0 CR. Cheers Manik View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162833#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...