Using Jboss 2.4.1 and placing two jar files in the deploy directory Jboss seems to get confused. Example, I place Customer.jar and Reference.jar in the deploy directory. Start up Jboss. The log file says it deploying customer, then it begins deploying beans from reference.jar NOT from customer.jar. These beans deploy successfully. Next it says its deploying reference and attempts to deploy the same beans again. Naturally it generates InstanceAlreadyExists exceptions. Any ideas? Please Help