Unfortunately this is not allowed by the EE5 spec. We are working with Sun to get this changed in EE6. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3999253#3999253 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3999253