A user has reported that he runs into

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No resource-adapter has been specified for MessageDrivenComponent MqServiceMessageBean

    at org.jboss.as.ejb3.component.messagedriven.MessageDrivenComponent.start(MessageDrivenComponent.java:171)

when he uses a custom RA which is deployed as an deployment (instead of via the subsystem configuration file). Looking at the code, we don't correctly setup the dependencies between the MDB component create service and the RA service, which can lead to issues like these.

See referenced thread for more details.