JBoss is giving the reply that it is starting the J2EE application if you deploy them within an ear, but I am unable to use them with an ejb (previously deployed in a ejb3-archive) and the exception is NameNotFoundException: 'bean' not bound. I suspect this is because JBoss is trying to deploy the EJBs before it has deployed the entity manager (the persistent beans) and is therefore unable to deploy the EJB. I had the same problem on the 4.0.3, but solved this by deploying the par archive outside the ear archive, but this is not a solution anymore since jboss won't deploy a simple jar. How do I make a deployment to wait untill anoter deployment is done? Do I have to deploy this as 2 different ear archives? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3958727#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...