ejb-jar.xml declares the ejbs and the jboss.xml maps them to their global jndi name. ejb-jar.xml: <ejb-jar version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/ejb-jar_3_0.xsd"> | | <enterprise-beans> | | <session> | <ejb-name>MyBean</ejb-name> | <local>com.example.MyLocal</local> | <ejb-class>com.example.MyBean</ejb-class> | </session> | | </enterprise-beans> | | </ejb-jar> jboss.xml: <!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC | "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 3.2//EN" | "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_3_2.dtd"> | <jboss> | <enterprise-beans> | <session> | <ejb-name>MyBean</ejb-name> | <local-jndi-name>com.example.MyBean/local</local-jndi-name> | </session> | </enterprise-beans> | </jboss> with these you can use the following to look up the ejb: MyLocal bean = (MyLocal)new InitialContext().lookup("com.example.MyBean/local"); | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4115552#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...