"jaikiran" wrote : "zithuba" wrote : Yes, There is another topic dealing with this deployment problem, where a DS is deployed after the dependent ear or war. | | http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162523#... | | Probably not :) | | Marcelo.S_ is using JBoss-4.2.2 GA and not JBoss-5.0 CR1. From what i know, the datasource dependencies work fine in 4.2.2 GA. We just have to figure out the correct "depends" value to use. | Was just taking a look at those topics: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=138587 http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=138584 It might not be the same cause, however it made me take a look at \server\default\conf\jboss-service.xml: <!-- The URLComparator can be used to specify a deployment ordering | for deployments found in a scanned directory. The class specified | must be an implementation of java.util.Comparator, it must be able | to compare two URL objects, and it must have a no-arg constructor. | Two deployment comparators are shipped with JBoss: | - org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter | Sorts by file extension, as follows: | "sar", "service.xml", "rar", "jar", "war", "wsr", "ear", "zip", | "*" | - org.jboss.deployment.scanner.PrefixDeploymentSorter | If the name portion of the url begins with 1 or more digits, those | digits are converted to an int (ignoring leading zeroes), and | files are deployed in that order. Files that do not start with | any digits will be deployed first, and they will be sorted by | extension as above with DeploymentSorter. | --> | <attribute name="URLComparator">org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentSorter</attribute> | | <!-- | <attribute name="URLComparator">org.jboss.deployment.scanner.PrefixDeploymentSorter</attribute> | --> | Just renamed hibernate-service.sar to hibernate-service.jar and it worked as a charm. I'm still curious thought, since the dependencies should work and renaming isn't really the best alternative. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4162540#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...