"jprio" wrote : but I want to be able to use the values défined in the systemproperties-service.xml also ! That's a bit tricky actually. Because of the way the deployers work in AS-5, the dependency jboss:type=Service,name=SystemProperties should actually be added on the deployer which parses the ejb-jar.xml into metadata, which from what i see is not straightforward. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4257643#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...