Thanks for the response. However, that's where I noticed the problem: in this tutorial, and the service bean tutorials, the jboss-service.xml obviously is not used - even it's left there (only with the following content): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> I also tested with some my own jboss-service.xml, in which I followed the default JMX/JDNI naming, in addition to setting a few attributes. However, it doesn't seem to me that POJO Service bean actually look into the META-INF/jboss-service.xml during the deployment. I then checked the xsd of jboss.xml, and it doesn't mentioned about setting attributes/bean-props . .which is understandable, as it's not for deployment purpose. Any further idea? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972963#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...