A true circular dependency (injection) can not work in our current setup. For that we need to refactor the container and the (SFSB) cache to start working before we have method-ready instances. Here the circularity happens after deployment by JNDI lookup. That should work. The problem here is that jboss.xml defines home-jndi-names for EJB 3 beans, that's illegal and completely throws of the ReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4138874#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...