deployment of ear file containing other plain java projects

hey folks!

i got a very strange behaviour when i deploy my ejb application on WAS 6.1 instance within RAD. in my ear-project i do have two ejb-projects and about three other jars
that match with my other plain java projects. when it comes to deployment everything seems to be ok, but when i use the universal test client shipped by ibm,
i can't see any installed ejbs and no jndi-lookup works. i always get some NoClassDefFoundError regarding the first occurrence of one code line regarding my
plain java projects. it seems that they are not in classpath. but, shouldn't that be, until i referenced them within my ear-project???

btw, during deployment, i cant't see any logs that says "well, bean1 installed properly, bean2 installed properly, etc...". from jboss i know that there are outputs that
show the user important informations....

thanks and regards
bernd