Hi, in our JEE App (JEE5) we got several Session Beans (Stateless). Some SBs need others. Every SB got a @Stateless (name=...) Annotation. Every SB uses JNDI Lookup to get References to the others SBs. Therefore a @EJB Annotation is placed for the SB Class to indicate the need for other SBs. Example SB1 needs to access methods of SB2. @Stateless (name="SB1") @EJB( name = "SB2", beanInterface = SB2.class) class SB1 { ... JNDIlookup("java:comp/env/SB2") ; @Stateless (name="SB2") class SB2 { ... Everything works fine here. No problem. Now SB1 needs to call a method from itself, but not via simple method call but also via a JNDI-lookup-up instance, to be able to have a different transactiontype Question #1 is: does SB1 need a @EJB Annotation to itself? If Answer is yes there is the second question: Question #2: How is the @EJB Ref specified. I tried: @Stateless (name="SB1") @EJB( name = "SB1", beanInterface = SB1.class) class SB1 { ... JNDIlookup("java:comp/env/SB1") ; Already in the deployment phase JBoss complains (Name SB1 => CMManagement): DEPLOYMENTS MISSING DEPENDENCIES: Deployment "jboss.j2ee:ear=EJB30Reference.ear,jar=sb.jar,name=CMManagement,service=EJB3" is missing the following dependencies: Dependency "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=EJB30Reference.ear,jar=sb.jar,name=CMManagement,service=EJB3>" (should be in state "Described", but is actually in state "** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:EJB30Refer ence/CMManagement/remote-de.heitec.ejb3.cm.model.sb.CMManagement' **") Deployment "jboss.j2ee:ear=EJB30Reference.ear,jar=sb.jar,name=CMManagement,service=EJB3_endpoint" is missing the following dependencies: Dependency "jboss.j2ee:ear=EJB30Reference.ear,jar=sb.jar,name=CMManagement,service=EJB3" (should be in state "Configured", but is actually in state "PreInstall") DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR: Deployment "<UNKNOWN jboss.j2ee:ear=EJB30Reference.ear,jar=sb.jar,name=CMManagement,service=EJB3>" is in error due to the following reason(s): ** UNRESOLVED Demands 'jndi:EJB30Reference/CMManagement /remote-de.heitec.ejb3.cm.model.sb.CMManagement' ** If i introduce mappedName in the @Stateless and the @EJB everything works, but i do not want to use mappedName if not really necessary. Any Ideas what the "correct" way is for a SB to reference itself? Greetings, Volker View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4233488#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...