Here's one difference between my poms for an ear and yours. In the parent pom, it's my experience that I should generally build the ejb jar(s) before the webapp war(s) - often the webapp(s) depend on the ejb(s) (mainly for custom converters). | <modules> | <module>ejb</module> | <module>webapp</module> | <module>ear</module> | </modules> | Also, presumably, you've put a seam.properties file in ${PROJECT_HOME}/ejb/src/main/resources - there have been times in a new project when I haven't done this and run into the same problem. After you've checked that, my guess is it's time to double check the jndiPattern in your webapp's components.xml file. Good Luck View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4104099#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...