I still don't get it for an EAR. In this case there is: ear = client jar + ejb jar (no metadata / javaee 5) Since it's going depth first, I don't get a chance to register dependencies, because they are unresolvable without the ejb jar being deployed (/ parsed). So here we see it dive into the client jar: 2007-07-10 10:37:58,824 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.AppClientScanningDeployer] mainClass = class com.sun.ts.tests.ejb30.bb.session.stateless.annotation.appexception.annotated.Client | 2007-07-10 10:37:58,876 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3ClientDeployer] deploy vfsfile:/home/carlo/work/jboss-head/build/output/jboss-5.0.0.Beta3/server/cts/tmp/jsr88/ejb3_stateless_appexception_annotated.ear/ejb3_stateless_appexception_annotated_client.jar | 2007-07-10 10:37:58,877 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3ClientDeployer] Creating client ENC binding under: ejb3_stateless_appexception_annotated_client | 2007-07-10 10:37:58,898 WARN [org.jboss.injection.EJBHandler] IGNORING DEPENDENCY: unable to find @EJB from interface only com.sun.ts.tests.ejb30.common.appexception.AppExceptionIF in application-client.xml of ejb3_stateless_appexception_annotated_clientnot used by any EJBs | 2007-07-10 10:37:58,913 WARN [org.jboss.injection.EJBHandler] IGNORING DEPENDENCY: unable to find @EJB from interface only com.sun.ts.tests.ejb30.common.appexception.RollbackIF in application-client.xml of ejb3_stateless_appexception_annotated_clientnot used by any EJBs View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062326#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...