Wolfgang: Just catching up with the User Forum now :) In trunk I've even just added some extra processing to make errors of this nature painfully obvious: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/metadata/trunk/src/main/j... So your EAR (when deployed in trunk) shows me: org.jboss.metadata.validation.chain.ValidatorChainException: Validation has failed due to the following ValidationException(s) raised: | * EJB GeometricModelBean has defined EJB2.x remote component interface of de.fhw.komponentenarchitekturen.knauf.stateless.GeometricModelRemote but has no home; ; Incomplete EJB2.x View [JBMETA-130] ...meaning Jaikiran looks correct, assuming it's the XML that's your problem. "ejb-jar.xml Schema" wrote : Either both the local-home and the local elements or both the home and the remote elements must be specified for the session bean. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184349#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...