Hi, I am having a problem when I try to deploy an ear that conatins stateless session beans exposed as web services on JBoss 4.2.3. The problem only arises however if I attempt to inject an entity manager or entity manager factory into the session bean, or if I inject anything that has a dependency on that into the session bean. If I take it out, all works fine. Also, if I leave in the injection of the entity manager and take out the @WebService annotation the bean deploys fine. I have tried injecting via a setter and also injecting into the JNDI context for the bean but I still get the same thing. The ear is totally self contained, so the datasource definition resides in the ear. And the ear is made up of 1 ejb module, 1 war module, and common logic packaged as a jar in the ear/lib directory. Is this a known problem or is there a workaround? I did try doing some searches but I didn't have much luck in finding a solution. I need to be able to persist data based on the web service request. Thanks, Edward View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4230836#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...