Okay, I'm about to drink a pint of windshield wiper fluid. If Peter or anyone else can help me, I'm forever grateful. I have created a new standard Java project, named com.acmeco.serverapp.ftp.client, that sits next to the EJB3 app in my Eclipse workspace. I have created a jndi.properties file in the build path that has the data Peter suggested (even though I'm already hardcoding this info in the class itself below). I have created a new class in the default package called HelloClientPOJO.java. Here is the code: import javax.naming.InitialContext; | import javax.naming.Context; | import javax.naming.NamingException; | import java.util.Properties; | import javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject; | | import com.acmeco.serverapp.ftp.ejb3.*; | | public class HelloClientPOJO { | | FTPBean _ftpbean; | | public HelloClientPOJO(){ | try{ | Context jndiContext = getInitialContext(); | Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("com.acmeco.serverapp.ftp.ejb3.FTPBeanRemote"); | _ftpbean = (FTPBean)ref; | }catch (javax.naming.NamingException ne){ | //nothing | } | } | | protected void sayHello() { | _ftpbean.doWork(); | } | | public static void main(String [] args) | { | HelloClientPOJO helloClient= new HelloClientPOJO(); | helloClient.sayHello(); | } | | // developed for JBoss only. this is vender dependency | public static Context getInitialContext( ) throws javax.naming.NamingException { | Properties p = new Properties( ); | p.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); | p.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES, " org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces"); | p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "jnp://localhost:1099"); | return new javax.naming.InitialContext(p); | } | } | Here is the error on the console when the POJO app runs: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at HelloClientPOJO.sayHello(HelloClientPOJO.java:24) at HelloClientPOJO.main(HelloClientPOJO.java:30) I got this from this URL/tutorial: http://biese.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/how-to-call-ejb3-from-jsp-servlet-a... Neither the server nor the bean(s) have been changed, so my JBoss startup/deployment log and JNDI info is all the same as before. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to put into the content lookup to find the bean? Please help! Once I get this working, I am going to write the world's most idiot proof Hello World for JBoss 5/EJB 3/Eclipse. I know a LOT of other people have/had problems with these issues. I want to end the confusion once and for all. yetti View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223795#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...