What you posted is a report indicating that something has failed, but it does not provide enough information to determine the error. Earlier in the console output there should be a stack trace that identifies the error, please post that. Also, post the contents of your ejb-jar.xml and jboss.xml. And state which EJB spec you are following (2.1, 3.0). Out of curiosity, why did you initially ask a generic question instead of posting the error that you ran into? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063239#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...