You will have to place jboss-ejb3x.jar and jboss-annotations-ejb3.jar in the classpath View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044392#4044392 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4044392