--- c:\Apps\jakarta-ant-1.4Beta2\src\main\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\optional\ejb\EjbJar.java.~1~    Tue Aug 28 11:34:44 2001
+++ c:\Apps\jakarta-ant-1.4Beta2\src\main\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\optional\ejb\EjbJar.java        Tue Aug 28 11:34:44 2001
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@
    
             log(files.length + " deployment descriptors located.",
                 Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
-           
+            Arrays.sort(files);
             // Loop through the files. Each file represents one deployment
             // descriptor, and hence one bean in our model.
             for (int index = 0; index < files.length; ++index) {