What did the "depends" element you added to the persistence archjve look like? Also, does packaging the persistence archive and the -ds.xml together in a sar help? I'm thinking this is due with the fact that the deploy-hasingleton folder is deployed as a deployment itself, all of the items contained within deploy-hasingleton are then deployed as sub-deployments of the parent deployment. A side effect of this is normal deployment ordering rules do not apply. Another thing to look at for a workaround is using the BarrierController discussed on http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=HASingletonDeployer. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3985009#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...