"istudens(a)redhat.com" wrote : | Ok, but if there will be none in the deploy dir, the ear will not be able to deploy successfully, because there will be no services such as jbossweb, transaction manager etc. as I mentioned earlier. Or will the AS wait for other deployments to finish the deployment of the ear? Even if that deployments will not be in the deploy dir in that time? | Yes, that's what you are testing. If the ear is deployed first, then the ejb service, tomcat, transaction manager, etc. are deployed after, the ear should still work once everything is deployed (i.e. regardless of the order of deployment) The idea of the test is spot where this is not the case so we can fix the dependency. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4178313#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...