User development, A new message was posted in the thread "Context Lookup vs. Injection": http://community.jboss.org/message/523890#523890 Author : jaikiran pai Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/jaikiran Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry, forgot about this discussion.   I tried this today and it worked fine for me. Here's the EJB3 SLSB into which i am injecting this as a @Resource:   public interface KeyGenerator {    Object generateKey(); }     @Stateless @Remote(KeyGenerator.class) @RemoteBinding(jndiBinding = SimpleSLSB.JNDI_NAME) public class SimpleSLSB implements KeyGenerator {      public static final String JNDI_NAME = "KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestBean";       @Resource (mappedName="UUIDKeyGeneratorFactory")    private KeyGeneratorFactory keygenFactory;      public Object generateKey()    {       if (this.keygenFactory == null)       {          throw new RuntimeException("Key generator factory was not injected");       }       try       {          return this.keygenFactory.getKeyGenerator().generateKey();       }       catch (Exception e)       {          throw new RuntimeException("Could not generate key: ", e);       }      }   }   And then a testcase which invokes on this bean, which then internally uses the keygenfactory to create a keygen and then the key:   public class KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase extends JBossTestCase {      private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase.class);       public KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase(String name)    {       super(name);    }       public static Test suite() throws Exception    {       return getDeploySetup(KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase.class, "keygenfactory-injection.jar");    }      public void testKeyGeneration() throws Exception    {       KeyGenerator keyGenerator = (KeyGenerator) this.getInitialContext().lookup(SimpleSLSB.JNDI_NAME);       Object key = keyGenerator.generateKey();       logger.info("Generated key: " + key);       assertNotNull("Key generator generated a null key", key);    } }     Passes: [junit] Running org.jboss.test.ejb3.keygenfactory.injection.unit.KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase     [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 1.178 sec   And here's the generated key:   2010-02-03 18:31:59,388 INFO  [org.jboss.test.ejb3.keygenfactory.injection.unit.KeyGeneratorFactoryInjectionTestCase] Generated key: 93EC42DA7F00000101C47F7C5549F6EB   -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/523890#523890