Issue

I have an application that contains an EJB3 module and a Bean. I want to declare a dependency of the Bean on the EJB module to guarantee that the EJB is already deployed when the start method of the Bean is invoked.

ie.

<bean name="MyListener" class="test.MyListener">                
        <depends>             
              jboss.j2ee:service=EJB3,ear=myEJB3App.ear,jar=EJB3Proj1.jar
        </depends>      
    </bean>    

But the deployment fails with this error

DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR:
  Deployment "vfszip:/home/user/jbossEAP5.1.2/jbossas/server/default/deploy/myEJB3App.ear
/" is in error due to the following reason(s): org.jboss.deployers.client.spi.IncompleteDeploymentException: Summary of
incomplete deployments (SEE PREVIOUS ERRORS FOR DETAILS):

DEPLOYMENTS MISSING DEPENDENCIES:
  Deployment "MyListener" is missing the following dependencies:
    Dependency "
                      jboss.j2ee:service=EJB3,ear=myEJB3App.ear,jar=EJB3Proj1.jar
                " (should be in state "Create", but is actually in state "** NOT FOUND Depends on '
                      jboss.j2ee:service=EJB3,ear=myEJB3App.ear,jar=EJB3Proj1.jar
                ' **")

Yet the server.log shows myEJB3App.ear is deployed and started.