If the invocation goes through, but not on the remote server, what you're probably seeing is the usual JBoss behavior of detecting the presence of the bean in VM and optimizing to a local call. I believe this is implemented via the org.jboss.aspects.remoting.IsLocalInterceptor. If you post on the EJB3 forums they may be able to give you some advice on how to work around that; e.g. configure your EJB so that interceptor isn't in the client-side interceptor stack. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4008450#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...