Without looking at your configuration files and the EJB/lookup code, i am just guessing that your bean is bound to the Global JNDI namespace, by the jndi name "env/ejb/CalcHome" (the remote home) and "env/ejb/CalcLocalHome" (for the local home). So if you are looking up the remote interface then your lookup code should look like: Context ctx = new InitialContext(); | //remote bean lookup | Object obj = ctx.lookup("env/ejb/CalcHome"); | CalcHome home = (CalcHome) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(obj,CalcHome.class); | //create the remote bean | bean = home.create(); View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4055068#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...