Hi,

No you need not to do that.

I assume you are using Geronimo v1.1. But you might have to add 
additional dependency to your openejb-jar.xml as given in the below.

<sys:dependency>
	<sys:groupId>geronimo</sys:groupId>
	<sys:artifactId>activemq-broker</sys:artifactId>
	<sys:version>1.1</sys:version>
	<sys:type>car</sys:type>
</sys:dependency>



To further information have a look at 
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GMOxDOC11/MDB+Sample+Application.

Regards,
Lasantha Ranaweera

Arunanthisivam Vimalathithen wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am trying to deploy an EAR containing MDB I have deployed a JMS 
> resource (ActiveMQ RAR) seperately. But when I deploy the MDB 
> (parentId in openejb-jar.xml for MDB refers to deployed JMS 
> resource), I get an java.lang.ClassNotFoundException : 
> org.activemq.ra.ActiveMQActivationSpec error. Why is this? Does the 
> JMS resource also have to deployed as part of the MDB ear?
>  
> Thanks and regards,
>  
> Vimalan