Though the spec may *imply* this, it's really not too clearly defined. In fact, Burke had interpreted @Local/@Remote to work as either view initially. Eventually we uncovered that to support all of the spec's tests for EJBContext, this was the only way things could be drawn. Further bolstering the handling I outlined is the XSD for ejb-jar.xml: "ejb-jar.xsd" wrote : Either both the local-home and the local elements or both the home and the remote elements must be specified. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...