Doh, a xml parsing deployer has order 2000. An annotation parsing deployer needs to run after classloader deployer (4000), so I now have the AppClientScanningDeployer at POSTPROCESS_CLASSLOADER_DEPLOYER (5000). But this means that a chain of EjbAnnotationParsingDeployer -> EjbParsingDeployer -> JBossEjbParsingDeployer won't work. How can this be resolved? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4058579#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...