I'd bet that there was a bug in the MBeans created by the EJB deployer, which I've seen dealing with MDBs and "depends". (but only on redeploy.) I honestly don't know what it is, but it has never worked right since 3.2. If you can make things work without "depends", then that might be good enough. If you just need it to work, there is a way to have JBoss deploy modules in a certain order: http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=URLComparator Again, explain your module layout and messages you see. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008482#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...