anonymous wrote : 2008-12-30 12:01:41,517 DEBUG [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.Ejb3Deployer] Error during deploy: vfszip:/h | ome/jhsingl/pkg/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deploy/workflow.ear/workflow-ejb-2.7.0.jar | org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Error deploying workflow-ejb-2.7.0.jar: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: workflow.ejb.client.WorkflowEngineLocal Looks strange for a couple of reasons: 1) The ClassNotFoundException is being logged at DEBUG level 2) Your jar -tf output does show that the workflow.ejb.client.WorkflowEngineLocal class is contained in the jar file anonymous wrote : workflow/ejb/client/TransitionReference.class | workflow/ejb/client/WorkflowEngineLocal.class | workflow/ejb/client/WorkflowManagerEndpoint.class | workflow/ejb/client/WorkflowManagerRemote.class | Can you show us the contents of your application.xml? How is this jar mapped in the application.xml? Please also post the code of the bean and its interfaces including the import statement in those classes. And in your first post you have removed some of the details from the exception stacktrace. Could you please post the entire exception stacktrace? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4199108#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...