I found a way to make this work. Write your jboss-spring.xml as follows... <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" | xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" | xsi:schemaLocation=" | http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans | http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd | "> | | <description>BeanFactory=(spring-bean-factory)</description> | | <import resource="applicationContext-base.xml" /> | <import resource="applicationContext-deployment.xml" /> | | </beans> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129305#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...