"jaikiran" wrote : From what i remember, the module-order controls the order of modules in the application.xml and not the order of modules in jboss-app.xml. I'm wrong. Just found the dtd which says this: anonymous wrote : | The strict value indicates that the deployments of the modules will be done in the order that would be specified in the application.xml and jboss-app.xml file . Could you post your console logs (not server.log), the entire exception stacktrace and the contents of that jboss-service.xml? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4250724#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...