"Carlo" wrote : foo.ear/bar.jar/MyBean it will become "foo/MyBean" If we are going to follow this format then I don't see how the full JNDI name can be resolved on the metadata level. Since there is no info about parent deployment units. So, it seems like the JNDI name resolution is going to be split into the prefix and suffix parts (the later being resolved in the metadata). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4147547#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...