Hi Bryan, thanks you very much for your effort. seems to be a problem with spring in older versions. Last Thursday I tried to re create the problem in a stand alone application. I used spring 2.5.5 and a different way to inject the proxy. IT WORKED. after restarting node 1 if started handling requests as should be. For the sake of others here is the xml that worked for me: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | | <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" | xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" | xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" | xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee-2.0.xsd"> | | <jee:jndi-lookup id="servicesEjb" | jndi-name="jndiName" cache="true" | resource-ref="false" lookup-on-startup="true" | expected-type="com.bla.bla.bla.ServicesEJB"> | | <jee:environment> | java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory | java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces | java.naming.provider.url=host1,host2 | </jee:environment> | | </jee:jndi-lookup> | | </beans> | Thanks you again for all your help. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4206105#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...