mean while I putted the jar with the ejb and the client war into an ear package. the jar file was completed with the /META-INF/jboss.xml: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <jboss> | <enterprise-beans> | <session> | <ejb-name>MyBean</ejb-name> | <jndi-name>MyBean</jndi-name> | </session> | </enterprise-beans> | </jboss> | wolfc, trying your code I get the following (btw, using the narrow()-method makes the same): anonymous wrote : 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] javax.naming.NotContextException: jboss.j2ee:ear=testapp.ear,jar=mybean.jar,name=MyBean,service=EJB3:a14yg-w8mdj3-f1qcfl91-1-f1qcgfzd-9 is not a Context | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:692) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:587) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:392) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at mypackage.MyTestForm.getTestList(G4SchnittstelleTestForm.java:53) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) | 2007-05-15 14:31:26,953 ERROR [STDERR] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4045796#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...