"vashistvishal" wrote : | | What i think is different is that my jboss is running inside Eclipse, which means it gets its own instnace of JVM. Where as my client runs from a command shell which means when it runs it uses or it gets a different instance of JVM. In that sense my shell based client becomes a remote (client) to jboss running in different jvm instance inside Eclipse. | | Almost. Doesn't matter where the JVM is running from or how many versions of the JVM you've installed on your machine. When I say "instance of the JVM", I mean "separate process". Launch JBoss, that's one process. Launch another from your client's main method, that's another. You can list your processes (Linux "ps -aux", Windows CTL-ALT-DEL > Task Manager > Processes). And processes cannot pass references to one another. So unless your EJBs are being invoked by something that's also within the container, it's a separate process and will need to be remote. :) S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972996#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...