Just looked at your post again. Your jboss-web.xml contents is incorrect: | <ejb-ref> | <ejb-ref-name>ejb/alr</ejb-ref-name> | <local-jndi-name>jndi</local-jndi-name> | | </ejb-ref> This should be a ejb-local-ref and not ejb-ref. Change it to: <ejb-local-ref> | <ejb-ref-name>ejb/alr</ejb-ref-name> | <local-jndi-name>jndi</local-jndi-name> | | </ejb-local-ref> View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4175578#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...