"EE.5.2.1" wrote : The container implements the application component's environment, and provides it to the application component instance as a JNDI naming context. How the naming context is used by the different JavaEE roles is defined in EE.5.3. An application component is allowed to: 1. use annotations to get an EJB 2. do a JNDI lookup in the naming context 3. use the descriptor to inject the EJB So by omission it's not allowed to do a global JNDI lookup. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4129376#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...