Upon further digging, the root cause seems to be the PostConstruct annotated method not liking the ejbCreate method signature (the fact that it throws checked exceptions): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: @javax.annotation.PostConstruct annotated method has the wrong signature - public void com.creativesolutions.ems.prsbtaxtracking.ejb.PRSBTaxTrackingControllerBean.ejbCreate() throws javax.ejb.CreateException,java.rmi.RemoteException,javax.naming.NamingException | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository$ContainerInitialiser.resolveLifecycleMethod(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:782) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository$AnnotationInitialiser.resolvePostConstruct(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:714) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository$AnnotationInitialiser.getInfo(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:688) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.initialiseFromAnnotations(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:481) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getOrInitialiseFromAnnotations(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:466) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getBeanClassInterceptors(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:161) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.InterceptorInfoRepository.getBeanClassAroundInvokes(InterceptorInfoRepository.java:136) | at org.jboss.ejb3.interceptor.EJB3InterceptorsFactory.createPerJoinpoint(EJB3InterceptorsFactory.java:101) | ... 148 more Any thoughts? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4174715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...