Surprisingly the following jars do not exist in the distribution, so am unable to perform the steps 15,16 and 17. 15. Copy jboss-ejb3-client.jar from the lib/ directory of the distribution to jboss-4.0.x/client - jboss-ejb3-client.jar DOES NOT EXIST in the EJB 3.0 RC8 distribution 16. Copy jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar from the lib/ directory of the distribution to jboss-4.0.x/client - jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar DOES NOT EXIST in the EJB 3.0 RC8 distribution 17. Copy hibernate-client.jar from the lib/ directory of the distribution to jboss-4.0.x/client - hibernate-client.jar DOES NOT EXIST in the EJB 3.0 RC8 distribution Please Alex, Let me know, whats to be done, in that case. Regards, Rajesh. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3960388#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...