&quot;weston.price(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : If you remove the *-ds.xml file from the EAR, then you should be able to do: | | <rar-name>index-ra-0.1.rar</rar-name> | | Are you sure about that? I tried that but it responded with: --- MBEANS THAT ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM --- ObjectName: jboss.jca:service=RARDeployment,name='index-ra-0.1.rar' State: NOTYETINSTALLED Depends On Me: jboss.jca:service=ManagedConnectionFactory,name=index_connection_factory I think when the -ds.xml is outside the ear it should be: <rar-name>index-ra-test-0.1.ear#index-ra-0.1.rar</rar-name> and when inside it should be: <rar-name>index-ra-0.1.rar</rar-name> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3963011#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...