Hm, correction about MDB: has nothing to do with @Resource, it's about @MessageDriven in the all-deployment. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4180165#4180165 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4180165