I took a look at the jboss server log to see what's going on with the ejb jar. With my limited knowledge of jboss, it looks like its deploying the jar. However, I noticed it didn't mention anything about the beans. Do you have any idea why its finding the jar, but not binding the beans? Here are the lines from the log that have the term "Shadows.jar" in them. 2009-02-26 11:14:08,066 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer] Extracted deployable content: Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:09,269 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer] Deployment Info: org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@c5ef8fe8 { url=file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar } | deployer: null | status: null | state: CONSTRUCTED | watch: file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | altDD: null | lastDeployed: 0 | lastModified: 0 | mbeans: | , isDirectory: false | 2009-02-26 11:14:10,082 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Starting deployment (init step) of package at: file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:10,082 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.JARDeployer] looking for nested deployments in : file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:10,082 DEBUG [org.jboss.mx.loading.RepositoryClassLoader] Added url: file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar, to ucl: org.jboss.mx.loading.UnifiedClassLoader3@1ff3900{ url=file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear ,addedOrder=42} | 2009-02-26 11:14:10,082 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] found 0 subpackages of file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:11,785 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] create step for deployment file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:11,785 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Done with create step of deploying Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:11,800 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Begin deployment start file:/C:/dev/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/all/tmp/deploy/tmp6695379174028898419shadows.ear-contents/Shadows.jar | 2009-02-26 11:14:11,800 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] End deployment start on package: Shadows.jar View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4213474#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...