Mary Mother of GOD!!!! you are RIGHT!!! thanks man. would never think of it by my self... so the conclusion here is that in jboss 4.2: if your local and remote interface are actually one; and your SLSB implements both; and you use injection rather than a lookup to retrieve it, you will get the remote by default! which will cause the LAZY stuff to be corrupted... why is that? sounds like a bug to me, or at least an optimization error. comments are welcomed View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4136389#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...