This is just to document what Jonathon discovered and communicated in a private e-mail The iiop servants for EJBs (both home and ejbobject) hardwire the TxServerInterceptor to retrieve the transaction from the request. There is a similar problem for the security. We need to come up with some integration api such that the iiiop ejb proxy doesn't depend upon specific transport configuration like what interceptors are used. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4086077#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...