After some investigations I finally found that an web service annotated bean cannot reside in a JAR-file, it must be placed in a war file. These are my thoughts right now, so the following must be applied: a EJB jar file containing my EJBs a war file containing my JAX-WS endpoint so, in maven2 there will be three project for such a small thing. - a beans project with packaging set to "ejb" - a web project with packaging set to "war" - and a era project with packaging set to "ear" (this project is empty, except for the pom.xml) Thanks for the help. Best Oskar View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4028620#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...