jaikiran: I made minor change to my deployment. The EJB jar used to be deployed to JBoss 4.2.2GA as jar file. Now it is deployed as exploded tree directory structure. I tested the whole process. Again, for jndi remote lookup, everything is fine, while for jnid local lookup it has run time error. How ever the error is slightly different: 10:13:40,932 INFO [STDOUT] [2008-06-27 10:13:40,932] ERROR (LocalJndiCallAction.java:76) - javax.ejb.EJBException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError ////Here is our jndi.properties file java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces java.naming.provider.url=localhost:8080/BessyWeb /////Here is ServiceLocator.java public class ServiceLocator { private ServiceLocator() { } public static Object getEJB(String jndiName) { Object object = null; try { InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); object = ctx.lookup(jndiName); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return object; } } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4161267#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...