Admittedly, I'm a beginner here, so go gentle on me. I'm using the NetBeans 5.5 beta 2 with the JBoss 4.0.4 GA installer, which supposedly includes EJB3 stuff, from http://www.netbeans.org/products/ide/ and so far things had been working perfectly. That was until I did right clicked "Enterprise Resources > Call Enterprise Bean" from the pop up window in an servlet of an Enterprise Application and referenced a working bean. Now my question isn't one of using the NetBeans environment, but rather that after it generated the code, which did compile perfectly, I started getting errors that my bean could not be deployed to JBoss due to an error in the web.xml file. Looking in the web.xml file, which I assume is some kind of deployment file (hey, I said I was new to J2EE), there is a new element in the xml called <ejb-local-ref>. And it's on this xml section that JBoss seems to be choking. Inside http://www.netbeans.org/kb/55/ejb30-jboss.html, it suggests that JBoss automatically adds session beans to the JNDI namesspace, and thus one should remove the ejb-local-ref from the web.xml file by going to the WEB-INF folder inside the Web Pages node. Doing so didn't help, and instead created a new problem with the bean not being bound to a name. My problem is fairly obvious, and I'm drowning in a sea of documentation that's in one world or the other, but not bridging the gap between them. NetBeans is producing this: javax.naming.Context c = new javax.naming.InitialContext(); | return (MyBeanLocal) c.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/MyBean"); Which exceptions with a anonymous wrote : javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: ejb not bound My guess is that I need something inside the web.xml file to do that binding, but I'm just not sure what. I'm also pondering in that there seems to be a jboss.xml file that I could create, but I don't know if this is on the right track or not, either. Would someone mind pointing me in the right direction? Many thanks, -Walt Stoneburner, wls(a)wwco.com View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3974036#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...