Seems like the Command bean is deployed before the User bean and that the @Timeout happens to early. I guess the beans are deployed in alphabetical order? Changing the name to XXXCommandBean fixed the issue... Any ways of controlling this other than changing names of classes? There are still some issues when firing the Timeout hook, but I will move over to the EJB forum for that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4211507#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...