The META-INF/*beans.xml files are only picked up when these are under deploy or deployers, not from lib. Some components have and can do a standalone bean installation and these should contain a beans descriptor that those so. For the overall there should be one beans descriptor (in AS integration module) that does the complete configuration of integration components (especially if we need components that are outside ejb3 land). For backwards compatibility we only need to make sure that the complete ejb3 distribution is as such, not individual components. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4269657#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...