You should ask on one of the ejb3 forums, but my suggestion would be to look for a later jbossAS/ejb3 combination View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4037272#4037272 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4037272