Got it. It was unable to call my method as it was not included in the web.inf as SJSAS requires EJBs to be declared. It now works but: I traced down with the debugger and it generated some exception down there which did not surface (which, IMHO, would rather be thrown/logged). It simply adds a JSF message "login failed". Alternatively It does add a message "Welcome [username]" if login succeeds. How do I override this default behaviour to add a message of my preference or most probably a localized message? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4030280#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...