jaikiran, Thank you for your fast reply. Here is a snippet of the console output (the actual output is very long, as you can imagine). Let us say I am after the bean 'DocumentBean'. Here is everything from the console that mentions DocumentBean: | ...lots of output... | 2009-06-15 13:03:31,687 WARN [org.jboss.ejb3.Ejb3AnnotationHandler] (main) JBMETA-4: did not find any bean meta data for annotation bean DocumentBean, will create some | ...lots of output... | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) installing bean: jboss.j2ee:ear=avant-ss-app.ear,jar=avant-ss-ejb.jar,name=DocumentBean,service=EJB3 | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) with dependencies: | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) and demands: | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) jboss.ejb:service=EJBTimerService | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) and supplies: | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) Class:com.kennardconsulting.core.ejb.session.isession.IDiskFileBean | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) Added bean(jboss.j2ee:ear=avant-ss-app.ear,jar=avant-ss-ejb.jar,name=DocumentBean,service=EJB3) to KernelDeployment of: avant-ss-ejb.jar | 2009-06-15 13:03:33,687 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.deployers.JBossASKernel] (main) installing bean: jboss.j2ee:ear=avant-ss-app.ear,jar=avant-ss-ejb.jar,name=AdviserBean,service=EJB3 | ...lots of output... | | 2009-06-15 13:03:34,296 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] (main) Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=avant-ss-app.ear,jar=avant-ss-ejb.jar,name=DocumentBean,service=EJB3 | 2009-06-15 13:03:34,296 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.EJBContainer] (main) STARTED EJB: com.avant.ss.ejb.session.DocumentBean ejbName: DocumentBean | 2009-06-15 13:03:34,296 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.proxy.impl.jndiregistrar.JndiSessionRegistrarBase] (main) Binding the following Entries in Global JNDI: | (two blank lines) | 2009-06-15 13:03:34,359 INFO [org.jboss.ejb3.session.SessionSpecContainer] (main) Starting jboss.j2ee:ear=avant-ss-app.ear,jar=avant-ss-ejb.jar,name=AdvisersCsvBean,service=EJB3 | Regards, Richard. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4237557#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...