The MDB is packaged in the ejb.jar. It is done with annotations, so there is no ejb-jar.xml. For the deployment issue, I read all of the posts about fixing the code for deployment ordering and then added the <module-order>strict</module-order> to the jboss-app.xml. And the modules are listed in the application.xml like so : | <application> | <module> | <connector>ra.rar</connector> | </module> | <module> | <ejb>ejb.jar</ejb> | </module> | <module> | <web> | <web-uri>web</web-uri> | </web> | </module> | </application> | And I saw in the log file that the order of deployment was preserved. I will remove the classpath from the rar, and check on that setting. Interestingly, i just tried the separate deployment and got the same error, so I must have something else wrong also. Edward View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4213216#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...