I don't know why, but for some reason the Ejb3Deployment of jar seems to pretend a parent ear scope. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4146915#4146915 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4146915