 <p>We run in the same issue recently. The way to overcome this was to remove the Utility Project from the eclipse workspace, as dependecies were resolved via maven poms anyway.<br> After that, the client under <code>Java EE Tools &gt; Remove EJB Client</code> (and thus in <em>ejb.dd.clientjar</em>) was set correctly.<br> Probably some bug similar to this <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122274" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=122274</a>.</p>