It's an annotation which specifies the method of a bean class which corresponds with the create method of a SFSB. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3982280#3982280 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3982280