With 4.0.5, you will have to look up the EJB using JNDI, the client-side annotations will not work. You could try 5.0 beta 1 to see if the client annotations work there (I haven't tried this yet and have not seen any definitive statements on this from the JBoss team, nor have I searched JIRA to see if there is anything there about this issue) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3997324#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...