"zumbiehl" wrote : | The lookup returns me a null instance of the Spring context although lookups work fine from within the JBoss container. | I think this is expected behavior. Since we put the bean factory into non-serializable JNDI context, there are no means of pulling it out from another VM. http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/javadoc/4.0.2/org/jboss/naming/NonSerializa... We cannot expect that all beans are serializable, plus the bean factory impl itself is not serializable in some places. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4132778#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...