O.M., You're now into appserver-dependent stuff. What appserver are you on? You mentioned WLI - WebLogic, perhaps? C'mon, I know you know this stuff! web.xml? ejb-jar.xml? Put on some hip-boots and wade in! Also, you can probably use the appserver management tools to query about the deployment. The "java:comp/env" prefix on the bean name in JNDI may not be uniformly applied by all appservers when a bean is deployed. If you're not on JBoss, that's my first guess. -Ed Staub View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4070543#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...