Something is messed up with the forum posting so I could not add this to the http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=121396 thread. I have the ReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer working for ejb-refs and the AppClientUnitTestCase is passing. The ReferenceMetaDataResolverDeployer exists in the metadata-beans.xml deployment. Right now its using a scan of the structure for ejb-name/ejb-link matching. I need to look in more detail at what the ee5 injection resolution requirements are, as well as generating proper dependency information to complete the implementation. Is there sufficient information post the parsing phase to resolve @EJB style references? I know we still need to get the annotation processing into the metadata model. I'm looking at the AnnotationEjb3UnitTestCase to understand the type of translation that is needed.