"alesj" wrote : But why is another lookup issued? Because the EJB 3 injection framework itself doesn't know about MC. It only knows the JNDI name. I could change this to kernel.getRegistry().getEntry(name) but that would just mean another lookup. (Note: the (JNDI) registry should never cache, because I might actually want a new SFSB.) "alesj" wrote : And what's the deal with those exceptions? At some point someone is asking for the HAPartition bean which is also a JNDI context, so the context is returned instead of the bean. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4080726#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...