It seems that ear file are deployed in below sequence: ... 1. EjbDeployer: install ejb but doesn't bind it to JNDI tree. 2. TomcatDeployment -> Initial servlet context and call listener: deploy war file and invoke servlet config listener 3. EjbModule -> BaseLocalProxyFactory: Bould EJB LocalHome to jndi tree. ... The problem here is if we want to invoke ejb method in ServletContextListener.contextInitialized() , it will fail due to the fact that jndi name is not bound. Any suggestion/work around to solve this issue would be highly appreciated. Best regards, Arthur View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4232096#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...