Hello, We try to migrate a big glassfish application to jboss, but we have a blocking issue with cyclic depencies on EJB3. The JIRA EJBTHREE-792 identified this issue as resolved thru the @IgnoreDependency annotation. This is not so simple - this does not work for us at all. I explain : First at all it does not work at all for ejb-jar.xml deployment descriptor file. There is no standard annotation IgnoreDepency even in jboss.xml, the jboss "not in spec" descriptor file. We then try to move the ejb-jar.xml injection into the code directly with the @EJB annotations as indicated in EJBTHREE-792 . It works for very simple code with @EJB injection without name references. But if you add name parameters it does not work anymore. We need parameters to @EJB to specify implementation. (our Glassfish code use this) You can try with this simple code : Hello1Bean class: @EJBs( { @EJB(name="ejb/Hello2", beanInterface=Hello2.class, beanName="Hello2Bean") }) public @Stateless class Hello1Bean implements Hello1 { @IgnoreDependency @EJB(name="ejb/Hello2") private Hello2 hello; Hello2Bean Class : @EJBs( {@EJB(name="ejb/Hello1", beanInterface=Hello1.class,beanName="Hello1Bean") }) public @Stateless class Hello2LocalBean implements Hello2Local { @IgnoreDependency @EJB(name="ejb/Hello1") private Hello1 hello; You then get the following dependency error : --- MBeans waiting for other MBeans --- ObjectName: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello2Bean,service=EJB3 State: NOTYETINSTALLED I Depend On: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello1Bean,service=EJB3 Depends On Me: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello1Bean,service=EJB3 ObjectName: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello1Bean,service=EJB3 State: NOTYETINSTALLED I Depend On: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello2Bean,service=EJB3 Depends On Me: jboss.j2ee:jar=cyclic.jar,name=Hello2Bean,service=EJB3 We have the problem in both 4.2.2 & 5.0Beta3 versions. We have currently no solution,no working workaround. Need help, thanks, Olivier View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4156424#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...