There is no easy way to do this at the AOP layer, but it seems that if the call is local the EJBContainerInvocation will contain something under | invocation.getMetaData("IS_LOCAL", "IS_LOCAL"); | You could customize the stack of interceptors used for your ejb 3 container(s) in ejb3-interceptors-aop.xml, or create your own domains by deploying your own whatever-aop.xml file and override the domain used in your bean using the @Domain annotation. I am not sure if this is shown in the ejb3 documentation, but there is a test in the ejb3 testsuite under org.jboss.ejb3.test.aspectdomain that you could look at. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3988689#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...