The minimal changes I need to get the Ejb3Deployer out so I can have the ejb3.deployer provide it are: Ejb3Deployment - remove the Ejb3Deployer reference and just add setters for the CacheFactoryRegistry, RemoteProxyFactoryRegistry, PersistenceManagerFactoryRegistry. Also need to add a PoolFactoryRegistry. EJBContainer - need to get the PoolFactoryRegistry from the Ejb3Deployment I have made these changes locally and am testing them in the server. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4133039#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...