Just following up..I mean when the jboss server is up on the same machine where the client is running, it works. When I shutdown the jboss server on the same machine, i get a socket connection error. Thing is it gets the ejb reference from the remote machine, but when it calls methods on the ejb reference, it calls on the local machine. That is when the socket error is thrown. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3996627#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...