anonymous wrote : We have an @Service EJB3 deployed as EAR that does not only depend on a service, but also on classes provided by another EAR deployment. There's no direct way of specifying a @Depends on a class. Are you adding a @Depends on the EAR "deployment"? Please post the @Depends you are using. I am not sure adding a @Depends on the EAR "deployment" is going to work because of the way deployers work in AS-5. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4253733#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...