To answer your question, "where am I stuck at?", well, that varies as I try different things. I seem to be able to startup both the front end and back end servers without any issues but when the front end servlet tries to lookup the EJB, I get the errors. The errors change depending on what settings I am currently using. It's a shame you haven't used IIOP before because what I think would really help me is a concrete example of a servlet communicating with an EJB over iiop. I haven't been able to find one though. I think if I had a working example I could figure out where I am going wrong. I think that my problem lies with one or more of these: 1. my jndi.properties, 2. my jacorb.properties, 3. my InitialContext as defined in my servlet, 4. my EJB lookup in the servlet. Everything I have read discusses how JBoss doesn't need stubs and skeletons making the deployment easier. I agree that skipping a compilation step does make the process easier but I still think there needs to be something explaining the required configuration. Peace, Anders View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4051092#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...