sorry for giving late reply following is printed when i run the jar command C:\devTools\jboss-4.0.1\jboss-4.0.1\server\default\deploy>jar -tf mfsc.ear META-INF/ META-INF/MANIFEST.MF META-INF/application.xml mfsc.jar mfsc.war C:\devTools\jboss-4.0.1\jboss-4.0.1\server\default\deploy> _____________________________________________________________ contents of my ejb-jar.xml is same as which i posted earlier View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4047803#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...