I want to use the Spring Deployer to inject EJBs in POJOs. I wrote a BeanPostProcessor that will inject EJBs into any POJO having a javax.ejb.EJB annotation. But the problem is , the EJBs are not started untill the ear deployes, and the ear is not deployed untill all its components including the -spring.xml file is deployed. e.g. app.ear appcontext-spring.xml some-ejbs.jar Although the EJBs are deployed before the -spring.xml file is loaded, they are not bound to the JNDI tree, until after the ear has finished deploying. But the ear won't finish deploying untill appcontext-spring.xml is also processed. Now if I have a bean post processor that does a JNDI lookup on a perticular EJB, it doesn't find it, as the ejbs are not yet bound. Any work around this circular dependency ? btw, I am using EJB3 and the JNDI string is ear-filename/EJB3-bean-name/local e.g. app/SomeEJBService/local . thanks View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044529#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...