"manemannen" wrote : SimpleStatefulBeanRemote o = (SimpleStatefulBeanRemote) ctx.lookup("simpleserver/" + SimpleStatefulBean.class.getSimpleName() + "/remote"); | | | | I have seen many examples of this and it introduces a dependency from the client to the actual implementation and obsoletes the purpose of interfaces - weird It's actually just that the default JNDI name uses the ejb-name, which in turn is "BeanImplementationClass.class.getSimpleName()". If you manually say @Stateless.name == "whatever", then the JNDI name is "appName/whatever/remote". So there's not *really* an impl dependency. ;) S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4220408#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...