I've had the same problem, so this post is for anyone who finds this thread and wants to know the answer too! (I'm assuming that zzzz8 is not still looking for a response by this time...)If your application EAR, or whatever, doesn't have a jboss.xml file in META-INF, standardjboss.xml is ignored (nothing to merge it with, y'see). Declarations in an app's jboss.xml can override the server-wide defaults defined in standardjboss.xml. In this example, you could just create a jboss.xml for the specific application, and put these two nodes in it, like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 4.0//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_4_0.dtd"> | | <jboss> | <container-configuration> | <container-name>Standard Stateful SessionBean</container-name> | <call-logging>false</call-logging> | <invoker-proxy-binding-name>stateful-unified-invoker</invoker-proxy-binding-name> | <container-interceptors> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor</interceptor> | <!-- CMT --> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor> | <!-- BMT --> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor> | </container-interceptors> | <instance-cache>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceCache</instance-cache> | <persistence-manager>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionFilePersistenceManager</persistence-manager> | <container-cache-conf> | <cache-policy>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.NoPassivationCachePolicy</cache-policy> | <cache-policy-conf> | <flush-enabled>true</flush-enabled> | </cache-policy-conf> | </container-cache-conf> | <container-pool-conf> | <MaximumSize>100</MaximumSize> | </container-pool-conf> | </container-configuration> | | <container-configuration> | <container-name>Clustered Stateful SessionBean</container-name> | <call-logging>false</call-logging> | <invoker-proxy-binding-name>clustered-stateful-unified-invoker</invoker-proxy-binding-name> | <container-interceptors> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.ProxyFactoryFinderInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CleanShutdownInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.LogInterceptor</interceptor> | <!-- CMT --> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorCMT</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Container">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor> | <!-- BMT --> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulSessionInstanceInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.TxInterceptorBMT</interceptor> | <interceptor transaction="Bean">org.jboss.ejb.plugins.CallValidationInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.SecurityInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.CachedConnectionInterceptor</interceptor> | <interceptor>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionSynchronisationInterceptor</interceptor> | </container-interceptors> | <instance-cache>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionInstanceCache</instance-cache> | <persistence-manager>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.StatefulHASessionPersistenceManager</persistence-manager> | <container-cache-conf> | <cache-policy>org.jboss.ejb.plugins.NoPassivationCachePolicy</cache-policy> | <cache-policy-conf> | <flush-enabled>true</flush-enabled> | </cache-policy-conf> | </container-cache-conf> | <container-pool-conf> | <MaximumSize>100</MaximumSize> | </container-pool-conf> | <cluster-config> | <partition-name>${jboss.partition.name:DefaultPartition}</partition-name> | </cluster-config> | </container-configuration> | </jboss> I believe this ignoring-standardjboss.xml-when-jboss.xml-absent behaviour is fixed in JBoss 5. O.M. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4169557#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...