What is the code that you have in the ejbCreate() method. Are you just looking up the bean's home or are you even calling create() method on the home interface? If you are just doing a lookup, then i dont think you would run into this issue. So i guess, you might be calling the create() method on the home interface after looking it up. Any reason why you are doing this in the ejbCreate() method? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4010091#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...