One additional piece of information (even though this should not be an issue?): The remote interfaces all have the same JNDI name across applications (of course interface a and b have different JNDI names, but interface a in ear X has the same name as interface a in ear Y): @Stateless | @RemoteBinding jndiBinding="somename/ejb/RemoteDispatchDataManagerBean") | public class Somebean implements SomeRemoteInterface { View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4044855#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...