Emanuel reported that packaging the -jboss-beans.xml in the jar and deploying the jar instead of a bare jboss-beans.xml solved the problem. I figured it should work packaged as a sar as well, so he's going to try that.. That should suffice until AS 6 when AIUI there should be no need for the binding service to deploy before deployers. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4231914#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...