The problem is "LocalHome object is getting created but when Local object is being created, the local object is returned as NULL" Sample Code is as follows SubFleetAlignmentEntityLocalHome objSubFleetAlignmentEntityLocalHome = SubFleetAlignmentEntityLocalHome)getEntityLocalEJBRef(BMSApplicationConstants.FLEET_ALIGNMENT_ENTITY_JNDI); SubFleetAlignmentEntityLocal objSubFleetAlignmentEntityLocal= (SubFleetAlignmentEntityLocal)objSubFleetAlignmentEntityLocalHome.create(); objSubFleetAlignmentEntityLocal.align(objSubFleetAlignmentDTO,con); // this line throws null pointer as objSubFleetAlignmentEntityLocal is null. Thanks Rahul Soni View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4251206#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...