Thank you very much for this post. I was searching in vain to find a way to move quartz adnotations to ejb-jar.xml and your post was helpfull. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <ejb-jar xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee | http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/ejb-jar_2_1.xsd" version="2.1"> | <enterprise-beans> | <message-driven> | <ejb-name>Test</ejb-name> | <ejb-class>Test</ejb-class> | <messaging-type>org.quartz.Job</messaging-type> | <transaction-type>Container</transaction-type> | <activation-config> | <activation-config-property> | <activation-config-property-name>cronTrigger</activation-config-property-name> | <activation-config-property-value> | <![CDATA[0/2 * * * * ?]]> | </activation-config-property-value> | </activation-config-property> | </activation-config> | </message-driven> | </enterprise-beans> | </ejb-jar> Here is a full link to my problem and solution http://www.len.ro/work/articles/jboss/creating-a-quartz-job for anyone needing. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4062363#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...