I'm missing the annotation in jboss-metadata. The MDB doesn't get a dependency on the newly created queue. This might lead to trouble. (I already found out that putting a service.xml with a queue within the EJB jar gives a similar problem.) Since I still don't want the MDB to know what's going on, maybe a reverse dependency is in order for MC? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4191747#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...