The JDBCHelperBean is included due to the fact that you cannot deploy this type of project without at least one EJB. As Tim mentioned this is more of a placeholder than anything, but you cannot remove it unless you are going to add at least one of your own custom EJBs <tim@danielit.com> wrote in message news:1457933427.1161960523459.JavaMail.wassrvr@ltsgwas010.sby.ibm.com... > Commerce has a EJB defined as ExtensionsJDBCHelperBean. It's not needed > since it's in the core JAR of commerce. So you can take the defenition > out of the EJB extendions jar.