Are you sure there were no errors during deployment? anonymous wrote : @EJB(beanName = "org.jboss.ws.hello.HelloBean") | private HelloBean h; This should have been: @EJB(beanName = "HelloBean") | private HelloBean h; or even this should work: @EJB | private HelloBean h; And by the way, you don't need the ejb-jar.xml for any of this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4146999#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...