"ablevine1" wrote : however when we call it from within our jboss server process, using either the local or remote session bean interface, we get the exception mentioned in the previous post. I would also like to note that we do not use dependency injection but rather use JNDI lookups to get references to our session beans in both cases. I tried a similar scenario (the bean the client in the same server) using lookup, worked fine. Feel free to provide a reproducible application. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4235408#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...