You can create a jboss.xml file and mention the jndi-name of your choice for the EJB. Something like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | <!DOCTYPE jboss PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD JBOSS 4.0//EN" "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss_4_0.dtd"> | | | <jboss> | | <enterprise-beans> | <session> | <ejb-name>ServiceEmployeBean</ejb-name> | <jndi-name>MyBean</jndi-name> | | </session> | </enterprise-beans> | | | | </jboss> | Place this jboss.xml in the META-INF folder of your ejb jar (same place as ejb-jar.xml). Then use this jndi-name (in this case "MyBean") in your code, to lookup the bean. P.S: You mentioned that you use EJB3. In EJB3 you no longer need the xmls to define the beans or the jndi-name. You can use annotations to do this. See this EJBTrail for more details http://trailblazer.demo.jboss.com/EJB3Trail/ View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4135867#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...