Thanks Peter! I no longer get the NoInitialContext exception. Now when I do a look up with the code BurdenRateFacade bean = (BurdenRateFacade)context.lookup("BurdenRateFacade"); I get a Classcast exception. java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext I did a context.lookup("BurdenRateFacade").getClass() and it prints org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext I have the following entries in my jndi.properties java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory | java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces | java.naming.provider.url=jnp://localhost:1099 View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203404#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...