I tried placing the ear into the deploy-hasingleton directory but I keep getting these exceptions on all my ejbs at startup. 13:17:00,991 WARN [ServiceController] Problem starting service jboss.j2ee:ear=x.ear,jar=x.jar,name=x,service=EJB3 | java.lang.NullPointerException | at org.jboss.ejb.txtimer.DatabasePersistencePolicy.listTimerHandles(DatabasePersistencePolicy.java | :165) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4176629#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...