what else has an ENC besides a WAR and an EJB? EJB3 creates its own ENC and pushes/pops it onto a ThreadLocalStack that the ObjectFactory uses. Why can't a WAR do the same exact thing? Does JBossWeb control ENC creation or does Tomcat specific libraries? If JBossWeb, then it should be easy to add something to push/pop a JBossWeb created ENC and share the ObjectFactory implementation EJB3 uses. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3995396#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...