The current cluster-beans.xml file includes a core service, the HAPartition, and a number of ancillary services (HA-JNDI, HASessionState, HA detached invokers, JGroups-based EJB2 entity cache invalidation). The ancillary services should be deployed separately to help highlight the fact that the core partition need not be packaged with all the ancillary services. Perhaps package HA-JNDI separately from the others as well.