In EJB3 the lookup of java:comp/env should be used. I don't recall why I didn't do this in the first place. I'm going to refactor injection. Now xml descriptors are interwoven into the framework, I want that out. Second thing is to make the separation between setup and injection more clearly. On the client side this means that it will only use the injection phase with metadata provided via JNDI. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3992713#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...