Now I understand your question. Did you read the readme file that comes with 5.0 beta 1? I states that hot deploy is not working in this beta. To deploy anything, you have to restart the server. I'm not sure about the @EJB annotation, I know it will be working for the final 5.0 version (because it is a Java EE 5 requirement), but I don't know if it is in beta 1. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3998020#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...