Thanks again for trying to help. (I have the feeling it's going to be something really stupid that I'm not doing correctly in my maven build. I've looked over the exploded ear though and it seems ok?) Anyway, the EJB seems to deploy ok. I can access it fine grabbing it by the jndi name from the InitialContext. here is the ejb showing up in the jndi tree: http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/86998/jndi.png and here is the complete server.log http://dl-client.getdropbox.com/u/86998/server.log Here's the simple service locator that is working View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4179928#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...