I just gave this a try on my local setup. Going by your logs, it appears that you have placed beans.jar in the deploy folder and the beans.jar contains EJB2 beans. I used a similar application named myapp_ejb2.jar and placed it in deploy folder. Started JBoss. Here's what i see on the console: | 20:39:39,739 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying HelloWorldBean | 20:39:39,989 INFO [ProxyFactory] Bound EJB Home 'HelloWorldBean' to jndi 'HelloWorld' | 20:39:39,989 INFO [EJBDeployer] Deployed: file:/D:/JBoss-4.2.2/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/jaikiran/deploy/myapp_ejb2.jar/ Then i 'touched' the ejb-jar.xml to redeploy this application. Here's the logs that i see: | 20:40:05,646 INFO [EJBDeployer] Undeploying: file:/D:/JBoss-4.2.2/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/jaikiran/deploy/myapp_ejb2.jar/ | 20:40:05,661 INFO [ProxyFactory] Unbind EJB Home 'HelloWorldBean' from jndi 'HelloWorld' | 20:40:05,661 INFO [EjbModule] Undeployed HelloWorldBean | 20:40:05,849 INFO [EjbModule] Deploying HelloWorldBean | 20:40:06,021 INFO [ProxyFactory] Bound EJB Home 'HelloWorldBean' to jndi 'HelloWorld' | 20:40:06,021 INFO [EJBDeployer] Deployed: file:/D:/JBoss-4.2.2/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/jaikiran/deploy/myapp_ejb2.jar/ Looks fine for me. Can you search for the string [EJBDeployer] Deployed: in your server.log? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4127426#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...