Ok, sorry for the delay in posting this reply. This issue turned out to be a configuration error in the ra.xml. I had the wrong value in the messagelistener-type value. Once that was fixed everything deployed fine. I was even able to include the data source in the ear and have everything deployed in a single file. Thanks for the help. Edward View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4217967#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...