Thanks Jay I already had the classloader order policy with parent _last for base ear and war, but still in vain and pain b/c of websphere. I even verified the deployment.xml in the server and it has parent_last for the class loader. BTW just want to make that I am running the same server configuration as you have tested. Webpshere 6.1.0.13 and EJB 3.0 Pack. Thanks any other thoughts? Nandhu View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127053#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...