Thanks Jaikiran - I figured that was the problem and removed the exceptions from the throws clause of ejbCreate(). I am able to deploy the beans now. Please note that these are NOT EJB 3.0 beans but EJB 2.0 beans that we are trying to package with other EJB 3.0 beans in the same JAR. Looks like the container will treat all my EJB 2.0 beans as EJB 3.0 beans because they have been packaged under the EJB 3.0 deployment descriptor. I am wondering if there are any other gotchas that we will run into as we perform more tests on the EJB 2.0 and EJB 3.0 beans that have been packaged together. I am really interested in knowing if anyone else has tried this approach (packaging EJB 2.0 and EJB 3.0 beans in the same JAR) and run into similar problems. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174852#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...