Hi I use a servicelocator which is a generic class which will return to me a remote stub based on the ejb requested with a jndi name. so i have about 3 different ejbs providing different services running in a cluster. now one of the ejb runs in a totally different partition. I do the lookup using Properties p = new Properties(); p.put("jnp.partitionName", "IndicsPartition"); //indicspartition is my partition name p.put("jnp.discoveryGroup", "230.0.0.4"); Context initial = new InitialContext(p); the other ejb's are deployed locally or in the same cluster. for the local or remote lookup in a cluster we already have Properties p = new Properties(); p.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,"org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory"); p.put(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES,"jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces"); p.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "localhost:1100"); // HA-JNDI port initial = new InitialContext(p); Do i need to have these both as different cases and try each or can i have one context which will be able to load it from IndicsPartition if available or from teh local cluster if availbale ? Thanks hari View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4090905#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...