here is the trace, im not sure what its complaining about because there is nothing wrong with the class in question any thoughts would be appreciated DEPLOYMENTS MISSING DEPENDENCIES: Deployment "jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=PageDataManagerSlb,service=EJB3" is missing the following dependencies: Dependency "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=PageDataManagerSlb,service=EJB3>" (should be in state "Described", but is actually in state "** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:livestats/PageDataManagerSlb/local-com.buzztime.livestats.pagedata.api.IPageDataManagerLocal' **") Deployment "jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=XmlFeedMessageListenerMdb,service=EJB3" is missing the following dependencies: Dependency "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=XmlFeedMessageListenerMdb,service=EJB3>" (should be in state "Described", but is actually in state "** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:livestats/PageDataManagerSlb/local-com.buzztime.livestats.pagedata.api.IPageDataManagerLocal' **") DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR: Deployment "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=PageDataManagerSlb,service=EJB3>" is in error due to the following reason(s): ** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:livestats/PageDataManagerSlb/local-com.buzztime.livestats.pagedata.api.IPageDataManagerLocal' ** Deployment "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=livestats.ear,jar=livestats-ejb.jar,name=XmlFeedMessageListenerMdb,service=EJB3>" is in error due to the following reason(s): ** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:livestats/PageDataManagerSlb/local-com.buzztime.livestats.pagedata.api.IPageDataManagerLocal' ** View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4225768#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...