To answer your question about who's responsible for putting that VF there, consider we deploy a client app on server side ant this causes some data structure referencing resources through vf to be bound to jndi. Then on client side we perform jndi look up and the resources are not available any more through the vf. Thus we're wondering whether it's a valid solution to use the vf to reference resources whose reference has to survive jndi registration/look up. And getting to this would eventually require the vf to be actually serializable. If this way of proceeding is not valid, we could go for different solutions, for example something like what you suggest. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4133835#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...