The @EJB Annotation does more than injection; it also establishes a dependency. For a JBoss-specific solution, you can also annotate your instance variable with @IgnoreDependency like: @EJB | @IgnoreDependency | MyBeanClass myBean; ...which I believe should work, though I've never tried this use case specifically. One thing it won't do is inject "myBean" if "MyBeanClass" is deployed *after* your other service - the container won't keep track of what injections it should perform if they're deployed at a later time. Also, your lookups don't necessarily have to point to a JNDI address that includes the application name. JBoss assigns these by default, but you can override with ejb-jar.xml or the @RemoteBinding/@LocalBinding annotations. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4081732#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...