I'm not sure what you have done. I don't think just ordering top-level deployments is enough/solves the problem we are trying to solve. We want the war deployment contexts to have a relative order > any other context by default. As I understand it this will start these last, which means the ejbs in the ear containing the war will have been started. I don't see that the top-level ordering is helping with anything. If WARStructure just sets the relativeOrder to 99, and this is propagated to the AbstractDeploymentContext, are the war context being started after the ejb contexts in the seam ear? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125816#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...